Talks by Stuart Reeves and Amy Dickens

We will hear talks from Stuart Reeves and Amy Dickens of the MRL.

Stuart Reeves: Embeddedness and sequentiality in social media

Over the last decade, there has been an explosion of work around social media within CSCW. A range of perspectives have been applied to the use of social media, which we characterise as aggregate, actor-focussed or a combination. We outline the opportunities for a perspective informed by ethnomethodology and conversation analysis (EMCA)--an orientation that has been influential within CSCW, yet has only rarely been applied to social media use. EMCA approaches can complement existing perspectives through articulating how social media is embedded in the everyday lives of its users and how sequentiality of social media use organises this embeddedness. We draw on a corpus of screen and ambient audio recordings of mobile device use to show how EMCA research is generative for understanding social media through concepts such as adjacency pairs, sequential context, turn allocation / speaker selection, and repair.

Amy Dickens

Amy Dickens is a first year PhD student in the Mixed Reality Laboratory with a background in Audio and Recording Technology. Amy will be giving an introductory talk to her research in motion and gesture controlled interactive sound and the potential applications of this in Neurological Music Therapy (NMT), under a working title of : Active & Creative – Exploring the potential of interactive sound in tailored interventions.