Jakub Mlynář

If you would like to explore some of Jeff's work, having read this short piece by Bo & me in The Psychologist, you could start with some of the items on this thread I put together in May this year: bsky.app/hashtag/Jeff...

#EMCA #EM/CA

Lorenza has a new project on "Timed Bodies": www.lorenzamondada.net/timedbodies

Some other things come to mind - of course it depends on what approach one takes:
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📢 Job opportunity #EMCA: 2 postdocs (80%) + 1 research assistant (50%) for a 4-year @snsf.ch project at HES-SO Valais-Wallis on AI in medical education and clinical decision-making. Start on 1 March (or as agreed), place of work Sierre (Switzerland).
Apply by 31 December.
Info: jakub.mlynar@hevs.ch

New post: Hannah Pelikan and Saul Albert on AI https://www.conversationanalysis.org/hannah-pelikan-and-saul-albert-on-ai/ #EMCA

Doctoral Researcher, Languages and Literature, English, Faculty of Humanities We are now looking for Doctoral Researcher to join us in the Research unit for Languages and Literature, English, at the Faculty of Humanities.   About the job The position is part of the Eudaimonia

A doctoral researcher position (English) in the project “Multiliteracy Expertise in Future Working Life: Interaction and Coexistence of Humans and Language-based AI Systems (MultiHAI)” open for applications in Oulu!

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Many thanks to @sgrosjean.bsky.social for her visit yesterday at the Institute of Informatics at HES-SO Valais-Wallis, and to everyone who participated!
Sylvie gave a talk "From Daily Struggles to Digital Support: Co-Designing an AI-Powered Self-Care Technology with People with Parkinson's".

Looking forward to presenting our paper "Embodying driverless shuttles" at the NORDISCO conference (3-5 December), based on research conducted with my colleagues Benjamin Nanchen & Luisa Ehrenzeller!

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Life Storytelling across Media and Contexts Issue of Narrative Inquiry

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The new special issue of Narrative Inquiry is on "Life Storytelling across Media and Contexts".

It also includes our paper on 'comparative work' in analysing oral history retellings written with J. Kocián, H. Maliukov and K. Roginer Hofmeister.

Happy to share offprints -- just drop me a message...

#EMCA alert!
The 25th Conference on Discourse and Conversation Analysis is taking place 25-27 March 2026 in Mannheim, Germany.

The theme is Technology Use and Social Interaction, and it has a fantastic lineup of keynote speakers and workshop leads!
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Great quote, thank you for sharing it, Timothy.

It seems to me that with Garfinkel and Sacks, it was indeed the case that the "master" also learned much from the "successor".

Enjoy the archive, if you are there now!

Erste Seite des Konferenzposters, die die im Post genannten Informationen enthält.

#Callforpapers: From 25-27 March 26, the Conference on Discourse & Conversation Analysis (Arbeitstagung zur Gesprächsforschung) will take place at the IDS Mannheim. Theme: Technology use and social interaction: New interactive practices, new data and methods. 👩‍💻 www.ids-mannheim.de/aktuell/vera...

“hidden in the foliage”

In June 2024, a special issue CFP on the Chicago School sparked a collaboration with @robinjsmith.bsky.social, Terry, Erik & Patrik. Inspired by Sacks' (1992:27) appreciative critique, we explored how CS ethnography may relate to the development of #EMCA. Our paper is now out #OpenAccess: t.ly/Has34

Very excited to announce this faculty search at Rutgers! Looking for a wonderful new colleague to join us in Communication #EMCA #LSI @ica-lsi.bsky.social @lansi2024.bsky.social
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I'd also highly recommend reading some of Sacks' Lectures on Conversation, published posthumously in 1992 -- they don't have the formalism that Stuart pointed out and that was somewhat characteristic of Sacks' papers published during his lifetime...

Yes, and the EM part is Ethnomethodology.
The screenshot in Mark's post is from the groundbreaking article by Sacks, Schegloff and Jefferson titled "A Simplest Systematics for the Organization of Turn-Taking for Conversation" (1974).
www.jstor.org/stable/412243

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The previous one listed in the EMCA Wiki bibliography database (out of 23 in total) was published in 2010: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Thank you! Indeed, we spent much time discussing the "provability" of poetic phenomena -- this seems to be one of the main challenges, and we only scratched the surface in the present paper.

Many thanks for the suggestions, of course, not everything can fit in one paper and we tried to keep our focus rather narrow in this one...

Now I remembered what actually prompted the paper -- it was this footnote in our previous article. We realized that such "footnoting" is a characteristically predominant way of dealing with poetics and wanted to explore that further.
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Thank you, Marina! Well, I am not quite sure about the prompt anymore :) But I believe there was first an interest in 'poetics' as such, and in the notion of the 'wild'. After a while, we decided to focus more closely on transcription of 'sound patterns' as a case in point...

Our new #EMCA paper, co-authored with Yeji Rieser, is out in #QualitativeResearch!

We revisit a rich but often overlooked strand of conversation analysis, exploring how transcription practices deal with the wildness of talk's poeticity.

Here as #OpenAccess: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Thank you!

It's been around for a while too... From Sacks' Lectures (p. 385):

‘All the good spots are already taken’: the visual properties of interior social sceneries This article provides an ethnomethodologically informed ethnographic investigation of visually recognisable aspects of shared work spots in co-working office rooms. We focus on the phenomenon of ho...

Several years ago I had a short project observing such practices in a shared office space :)

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Today I posted the 31st & final entry in a thread commemorating the work of Jeff Coulter, following his death in April. While not an exhaustive list, I hope it offers a sense of Jeff’s distinctive contribution, combining Rylean OLP with EMCA.

The complete thread is here: bsky.app/hashtag/Jeff...

In commemoration of Jeff Coulter I will post an article or book by him each day this month.

1. Coulter (2008) 25 Theses Against Cognitivism. Theory, Culture and Society 25:2 doi: 10.1177/0263276407086789

#JeffCoulter #EMCA

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The Routledge International Handbook of Ethnomethodology This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the most pressing issues and developments in the field of ethnomethodology, including ethnomethodological conversation analysis, and highlights new and e...

Coming soon, available in all good bookshops. It has been a long time in preparation but has been worth the wait!
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Great thread, fully agree. I was recently rereading Coulter's "Twenty-five Theses against Cognitivism" and was reminded how important and overlooked it is. Sometimes I miss such uncompromising spirit in today's academia. Livingston's latest has it, and I appreciate it a lot. Button et al. 2022 too.