Compiled by Emily Hofstetter & Bryanna Hebenstreit, with reports from Søren Sandager Sørensen, Tilly Flint, & Bogdana Huma The final…
By Rosario Neyra & Marit Aldrup (In collaboration with Marina Cantarutti and Rachael Drewery) Time really flies by when we…
By Rosario Neyra & Minttu Vänttinen (With collaboration by Yumei Gan, Marina Cantarutti, Taiane Malabarba, and Cynthia Hicban) Welcome back…
By Nick Williams, Federica Previtali and Virginia Calabria (with collaboration by Betül Çimenli, Klara Skogmyr Marian and Veronica Gonzalez Temer)…
We are excited to welcome nominations for ISCA’s awards. Nominations are due by April 5, 2023 and will be awarded at ICCA-23 in Brisbane during ISCA’s General Assembly.
The ISCA members forum newsletter only comes around once every few months so we thought we would send updates when we have news to share that is time-sensitive, and we are especially pleased to be able to send out news of ICCA 2023!
Dispreferred actions generally come with accounts. While in this case, COVID-19 is fairly obviously the issue, we do want the community to realize that our executive board did not make this decision lightly.
Negotiation of poses in photography studio is an important process for photo taking. In order to produce a desirable photo, photographers and clients engage in artful practices in calibrating body postures (e.g. Tekin, 2017). Tekin showed that the skilful coordination between the photographer and the clients involves considerable interactional work, including linguistic and embodied resources as well as spatial adjustment in the studio. In fact, apart from posing, another important aspect in the photo-making process is to produce an appropriate facial expression (e.g. smiling face, serious face, joking face, excitement face). Perhaps because smile is often preserved as a positive expression of feelings, such as happiness (Nettle, 2005), affiliation and appreciation in interactions (Peräkylä & Sorjonen, 2012), a very frequent practice in a photographic studio is to instruct and help the client to “produce a smiling face”.
By Stamatina Katsiveli-Siachou
Translation can be tricky in many ways and decisions are always consequential. Importantly, CA’s emic approach foregrounds the dataset over researcher’s assumptions. This means that every detail in how people design their turn can be consequential for what is going on, but might also not be treated as such; it all depends on interlocutors’ orientation.
By Emma Tennent
We all know how important it is to protect participants’ confidentiality, particularly when working with sensitive data. However, ethics committees are not always familiar with how interactional research works which can pose challenges for data collection. In this short commentary, we report on the challenges Fiona faced in negotiating with the ethics committee and how constraints imposed shaped the process of data collection. We highlight the need for researchers of social interaction to share our strategies for securing ethical approval.