Communicative affordances and participation frameworks in mediated interaction

Hutchby, Ian

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2014.08.012

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“…Hutchby, 2001;Arminen, 2005). Interaction in any setting is viewed as a sequentially organized multimodal process, which relies on resources of the body and the communicative affordances of the material setting, including written materials and technological artefacts located and used in the interactional setting (Hutchby, 2014). The analysis shows how the participants draw on different modalities and the affordances of the technology utilized in managing stepwise entry in to the shared meeting space and initiating the meeting proper.…”

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Openings in technology-mediated business meetings

Oittinen

Piirainen–Marsh

2015

Journal of Pragmatics

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The prerequisites for opening a meeting, or beginning any kind of interaction for that matter, are participants' presence and shared orientation towards the situation at hand. This paper analyses how the initial moments of technology-mediated business meetings involving distributed work groups are organized sequentially and multimodally. Drawing on video-recorded meetings in an international company, it documents the multimodal practices used in the process of establishing co-orientation to the shared meeting space and achieving entry into the meeting. The analysis shows that the stepwise unfolding of the opening phase requires the coordination of verbal and bodily conducts as well as the affordances of the technological artefacts utilized. The study contributes to a growing body of research investigating the emergent, collective and multimodal accomplishment of activities in workplace meetings.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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Openings in technology-mediated business meetings

Oittinen

Piirainen–Marsh

2015

Journal of Pragmatics

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“…Affordances are both functional and relational, enabling or constraining engagement in different ways depending on context (Hutchby, 2014). In other words, users develop culturally specific understandings of communication technologies and their communicative possibilities -on the basis of which certain media and communicative practices are perceived as more appropriate than others in certain contexts.…”

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Perpetual contact as a communicative affordance: Opportunities, constraints, and emotions

Mascheroni

Vincent

2016

Mobile Media & Communication

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This paper draws on qualitative data collected as a part of a comparative study on children and teenagers' uses of smartphone in nine European countries to explore the meanings and emotions associated with the enhanced possibility of "fulltime" contact with peers provided by smartphones. It argues that full-time access to peers -which interviewees identify as the main consequence of smartphones and instant messaging apps on their interactions with peers -is a communicative affordance, that is, a set of socially constructed opportunities and constraints that frame possibilities of action by giving rise to a diversity of communicative practices, as well as contradictory feelings among young people: intimacy, proximity, security as well as anxiety, exclusion and obligation. Understanding the perceptions and emotions around the affordance of "anywhere, anytime" accessibility, therefore, helps in untangling how communicative affordances are individually perceived but also, and more importantly, socially appropriated, negotiated, legitimised and institutionalised.

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“…). Considered in tandem with research on transduction technologies themselves (e.g., Hutchby ; Keating ), this body of work suggests that anthropologists should develop a robust discourse about the partiality of recording and, in particular, the ways that partiality embedded in the affordances of transducers impacts ethnographic fieldwork.…”

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Anthropological Ethics and the Communicative Affordances of Audio‐Video Recorders in Ethnographic Fieldwork: Transduction as Theory

Black

2017

American Anthropologist

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This article contributes to the development of professional anthropological discourses about audiovideo recording technologies in ethnographic research. Synthesizing scholarship on ethnographic partiality, doing ethnography in sound, and multimedia technologies, the article reflexively applies the concepts of transduction and affordance to analyze how recorders may be theorized as part of fieldwork encounters. This is based on fieldwork with a Zulu gospel choir comprised of people living with HIV in South Africa. Here, I discuss how research participants guided my use of recorders amid inequality and HIV stigma. I analyze the ethical-communicative affordances of recording technologies, examining how the design of audio-video technologies intersects with cultural and communicative conventions for use and evaluation of use of these technologies. This analysis suggests that the ethical-communicative affordances of transducers yield both an extension of an ethnographer's social self and a disconnect from that self in ways that can be productively navigated during fieldwork. [ethnographic methods, technology, stigma, ethics]RESUMEN Este artículo contribuye al desarrollo de los discursos antropológicos profesionales acerca de las tecnologías de grabación de audio y video en la investigación etnográfica. Sintetizando las investigaciones en parcialidad etnográfica, haciendo la etnografía en sonido, y tecnologías multimedia, este artículo reflexivamente aplica los conceptos de transducción y ofrecimiento para analizar cómo las grabadoras pueden ser teorizadas como parte de los encuentros de trabajo de campo. Esto está basado en el trabajo de campo con un coro de góspel zulú compuesto por personas que viven con VIH en Sudáfrica. Aquí, discuto cómo los participantes en la investigación guiaron mi uso de grabadoras en medio de la desigualdad y el estigma del VIH. Analizo los ofrecimientoséticoscomunicativos de tecnologías de grabación, examinando cómo el diseño de tecnologías de audio y video intersecta con las convenciones culturales y comunicativas para uso y evaluación del uso de estas tecnologías. Este análisis sugiere que los ofrecimientoséticos-comunicativos de los transductores generan tanto una extensión del ser social del etnógrafo y una desconexión de ese ser mismo en formas que pueden ser productivamente navegadas durante el trabajo de campo. [métodos etnográficos, tecnología, estigma,ética]

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Communicative affordances and participation frameworks in mediated interaction

Cited by 82 publications

References 10 publications

Openings in technology-mediated business meetings

Openings in technology-mediated business meetings

Perpetual contact as a communicative affordance: Opportunities, constraints, and emotions

Anthropological Ethics and the Communicative Affordances of Audio‐Video Recorders in Ethnographic Fieldwork: Transduction as Theory

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