Saul Albert

The conversational action test: Detecting the artificial sociality of artificial intelligence - Saul Albert, William Housley, Rein Ove Sikveland, Elizabeth Stokoe, 2025 Drawing on the “Voigt-Kampff Empathy Test”—a science fiction version of Turing’s famous thought experiment—we propose the Conversational Action Test (CAT): a ne...

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Rein Ove Sikveland

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📣 Our #19 newsletter is out: this season marks a fresh chapter for many in our community it is the beginning of a new academic year in the Northern Hemisphere or the start of a new term in the South, this season marks a fresh chapter for many in our #ILEMCA community.✨ 🧵1/7

📆CA Day is approaching, Monday 15th of December!

We have two fantatsic invited speakers:

Chase Wesley Raymond, University of Colorado Boulder
Deborah Chinn, King’s College London

🚨Deadline to submit an abstract is Friday 3rd of October!

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📢 Lboro CA Day 2025

A fantastic day of #EMCA presentations & networking.

📍 Lboro/hybrid
📅 15 Dec

Register now!
Call for abstracts open!

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I'll always remember the way he'd respond to someone claiming 'I think in my head'. Jeff would retort: "I think in the bath, in my car & sometimes in my office at BU, but I've never thought in my head".

Very sad to hear Jeff Coulter died in hospital in Boston 29-04-25 after a short illness.
Jeff leaves a body of work that people will continue to read for years to come, combining insights from ordinary language philosophy and Wittgenstein with EMCA.

A @mgsesrcdtp.bsky.social funded collaborative PhD studentship to work with me and @lizpeel.bsky.social
on "Identity work in palliative care" - a postgraduate research project using conversation analysis. Full details on how to apply here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...

📣 We're thrilled to present #17 ed. of our newsletter, brimming with the latest updates from #ILEMCA world. In this number, we offer a glimpse into research showcasing the diverse applications of CA across fields like healthcare, technology, & second language acquisition. 1/6

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On defeasibility in lying by Nick Llewellyn journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Flirting: A Designedly Ambiguous Action? Flirting is typically regarded as an ambiguous social action, which, in the absence of members’ orientations, is subject to multiple interpretations and hard to pin down analytically. This article ...

On designed ambiguity in flirtation by Susan Speer www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Musk is incredibly skilled at manipulating attention online, and this is a great example of how it is done through designedly ambiguous gestures. Somehow the wider media ecosystem needs to learn not to feed the trolls, although this seems unlikely given what troll feeding does for their bottom line

Musk's subsequent denial: "Frankly, they need better dirty tricks. The 'everyone is Hitler' attack is sooo tired." is even more telling. The designed ambiguity allows him to troll political opponents into expressing outrage, and inoculates him and political allies against accusations of fascism.

Designed ambiguity. Flirtation, dog whistles, and many social actions are intended to be defeasible, deniable, transformable. In this case, and in all such cases, it's what happens next that is the tell. "My heart goes out to you" offers an interpretative framing that renders the gesture deniable.

Not long now until we are eating
#CAkes together at #CADay24!

Looking forward to seeing you there! Online entries also welcomed for our hybrid attendees.

Interested in conversation analysis but don't know where to start? The next "CA for beginners" online one day workshop may be for you.
Thursday 16th January 2025
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Registration £40 at:
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Here's an #EMCA #conversation analysis #ethnomethodology #MembershipCategorizationAnalysis #DiscursivePsychology #StarterPack #AcademicSky

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Thanks for doing this Liz.

Here's an #EMCA #conversation analysis and #ethnomethodology #StarterPack #AcademicSky

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‘Spin a web with conversation analysis at the centre’ | BPS

‘Spin a web with conversation analysis at the centre…’

I report from the 12th 'Conversation Analysis Day' at Loughborough University.

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Have physicists been studying the most unstoppable force in the universe? We need to understand more about the Democratic Party's campaign and fundraising emails.

Real-world data in medical science is naturally filled with ambiguity and uncertainty—factors intrinsic to all medical practice. This lecture delves into the... Unveiling Ambiguity: Dilemmas of Automation in Medical Imaging

Another somehow disturbing but highly informative ethnomethodological reflection on automation from Jonas Ivarsson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGuD2cIij1g

If you want to know what is happening at the cutting edge of Conversation Analysis (my field), you can read some lovely live blogs we published from our field's main conference (that happens only once every 4 years) here: https://www.conversationanalysis.org/category/report/

Hello. I'm an academic at Loughborough University working on human/agent social interaction and conversation analysis (CA) in general. Thanks to my colleague and CA superstar @lizstokoe.bsky.social for the invite - always happy to meet new people and platforms :)