Jonathan Potter

If you know students or colleagues working on emotion who might be curious about recordings-based research, do pass this along.

Arlie Russell Hochschild called emotionography:
“a magnifying glass… to see, in breathtaking detail, the expression of emotion as it occurs in situations both alarming and real.”

We study emotion using recordings of natural interaction (audio/video from real settings), analysed with conversation analysis and discursive psychology to show how emotion is displayed, oriented to, and managed moment-to-moment.

Out shortly with APA books:

Emotionography: Theory, Research, and Practice (Potter & Hepburn).

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Great account of the day from @jonsutton.bsky.social
(And so fast!)

CA Day: great fun, cake, lovely people, fascinating presentations, expertly organised by @saulalbert.bsky.social @emma-richardson.bsky.social &various @darg-sessions.bsky.social peeps + @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social @charlesantaki.bsky.social @laalaajenkins.bsky.social
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Proofs are corrected - its is off to the printers!

Emotionography brings emotion back into social life, by revealing how our most intimate expressions are shared, structured, and interactionally achieved.

Published soon
www.apa.org/pubs/books/emotionography

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Loughborough CA Day started out wa::y back in 2007 as a local, friendly get-together of like-minded interaction analysts.

It's now a global, friendly get-together of like-minded interaction analysts.

People fly or dial in from all over the world.

Still great fun.

#EMCA

Thank you!

More details soon.

Book cover Emotionography. Subtitle: Theory, Research and Practice. Authors Jonathan Potter and Alexa Hepburn. Publisher APA. Abstract graphic motif; clean typographic layout.

The cover has arrived! Emotionography!
Emotions studied as they’re done in interaction - displayed, taken up, used.
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And now decompressing after an excellent workshop (and a cheeky visit to Stockholm, of course). Love it that @profsalwiggins.bsky.social managed to sneak in! DP royalty! @alexahepburn.bsky.social

Off to Sweden (again!) with @alexahepburn.bsky.social to join Katerina Eriksson Barajas and colleagues in Linköping for two days teaching Discursive Psychology: data sessions, analysis, and lively discussion. Excited to reconnect with old friends and new ideas.
#discursivepsychology #EMCA

Important, painful, and still timely!

Stethoscope on a white background

🚨NEW SPECIAL SECTION
Clinical risk discussions: an interactional perspective

- 7 novel papers (6 medical specialties)
- 1 report on CA training for high-stakes risk communication
- 1 expert clinical discussant

doi.org/10.1016/j.pe... #emca @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social @alexahepburn.bsky.social

Screenshot of Patient Education and Counseling article titled: Communicating anaphylaxis risk in pediatric allergy consultations: A conversation analytic study. Available here in text form: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2025.109284

⚠️NEW "Communicating anaphylaxis risk in pediatric allergy consultations"

Adrenaline prescription decisions are complex. Making reasoning explicit opens up decision-making to caregivers.

doi.org/10.1016/j.pe... @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social @alexahepburn.bsky.social @colinmacdougall.bsky.social

Reposting as still relevant. And pondering May Mailman’s extraordinary attack on universities on behalf of Trump captured in the NYT.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/o...

#9
If we want universities to defend society against pseudoscience & conspiracy (ever more needed), they need sustained support rather than caricatured takedowns.

#8
Lazy claims about squeamishness or bias obscure the real bind: govt frameworks + financial erosion + political hostility particularly from the right. That is what’s crippling UK universities.

#7
It’s glib to sneer at “VR caves” or gender theory syllabi. The real crisis is a system trying to do more with less while navigating hostile policy & public misunderstanding.

#6
Staff precarity, casualisation, and burnout don’t come from “fashionable taboos.” They come from impossible workloads, insecure contracts, and too much compliance paperwork.

#5
The gap has been filled by international students. Now govt policy in the form of visa restrictions, and hostile rhetoric is driving them away. This is financial self-sabotage.

#4
Meanwhile central funding has been hollowed out. Domestic fees frozen since 2017 while costs rise steeply. Govt support shrinks year by year.

#3
REF, TEF, KEF aren’t abstract acronyms. They tie every university to govt metrics: research outputs, teaching “excellence,” knowledge exchange. All policed, all audited. They are good and bad, but any serious criticism of universities in the UK needs to address their role.

#2
Marriott paints universities as indulgent, decadent, and squeamish. But the reality is very different: an over-regulated, underfunded system caught between REF, TEF, KEF, and shrinking resources.

#1
Following on from my earlier thread about claims of “bias” in universities (link below 👇), I was struck by James Marriott’s column in today’s Times. It’s full of anecdote & caricature. The real story of UK universities is structural, financial, and political. 🧵
👉 bsky.app/profile/prof...

There is no unified self | Kenneth Gergen Throughout history the West has promoted the unified self. Whether it is the Christian emphasis on inner purity or the rationalist focus on eliminating contradictions in thought and reason, we have lo...

“With deep roots in Western history, and blossoming in the 20th century, we find a widely shared belief in the ideal of what can be termed a unified self,” writes Kenneth Gergen. | https://bit.ly/4n5Rfm2

Gergen argues that the desire for self-unity is ultimately mistaken.

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Wonderful!