This paper demonstrates how two approaches from discourse studies – digital Conversation Analysis (CA) and Textual Interaction Studies (TIS) – can be used in tandem to analyse asynchronous written conversation. The main motivation for this mixed-methods approach is our observation that interaction in many asynchronous platforms, such as blogs and discussion forums, tends to be located somewhere in between the main focuses of digital CA and TIS. On the one hand, the posts in these platforms are often textually complex, multiparagraph entities. Furthermore, the opening posts usually address an imagined audience similarly to mass media texts. On the other hand, interaction within the conversation threads unfolds through the co-operation of at least two participants, and the meaning of each contribution is jointly negotiated by the participants. Our paper illustrates the benefits of combining digital CA and TIS by presenting a case analysis of one conversation thread from a Finnish book club blog.
This book offers a collection of state-of-the-art conversation analytic work on the impact of different types of digital technologies and media on social interaction. It furthers our understanding of whether and to what extent the varying practices of digital interaction can be considered adaptations of the basic organisations and resources of co-present face-to-face interaction. The chapters explore the emerging practices in contemporary digital interaction and in interaction related to digital technologies. The volume is organised into four sections according to the platform or type of digital interaction: mobile messaging, social media, video conferencing, and human-computer interaction. Each of the chapters highlights an interactional or linguistic phenomenon – an action, a practice, a sequence, or a larger structure. Some of these are unique to online environments, such as emojis or hashtags, whereas some occur in both online and offline interaction, such as repair initiators and proposal sequences.
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Tarkastelen kirjoituksessani sitä, kuinka tutkijoiden tietokirjoihin upotetuissa matkakertomuksissa rakennetaan tutkijan, erityisesti tutkimusmatkailijan, julkista persoonaa ja edelleen tiedeyhteisön ulkopuolelle suunnattua kuvaa siitä, mitä tutkimusmatkailu ruohonjuuritasolta koettuna on. Perehdyn varsinkin siihen, kuinka kertomuksissa työstetään tutkijan identiteettiä suhteessa matkalla kohdattuihin toisiin ja millaisia merkityksiä tutkimusmatkailulle annetaan suhteessa muihin matkailun muotoihin, esimerkiksi turismiin. Analyysikehikkona on Michael Bambergin asemointimalli, joka ohjaa tarkastelemaan tarinankerrontaa monitasoisena identiteettejä rakentavana toimintana. Malli on alkujaan suunniteltu keskustelumuotoisen kerronnan analyysiin, mutta artikkelissa kokeilen, missä määrin ja millaisin reunaehdoin sitä on mahdollista soveltaa myös kirjallisen kerronnan analyysissa. Aineistoksi on kerätty neljä tiedettä popularisoivaa nykytietokirjaa, jotka ovat suomalaisten biologien laatimia. Tutkimustuloksina esitän kolme tutkijoiden matkakertomuksille ominaista asemoinnin käytännettä: i) ei-tutkijoista erottautuminen ammatillista havainnointikykyä – tutkijan katsetta – korostamalla; ii) erottautuminen muista matkailijoista (etenkin turisteista ja reppureissaajista) painottamalla tutkimusmatkailuun liittyviä vastoinkäymisiä ja epämukavuuksia; iii) itsereflektiivinen erottautuminen kerrotusta minästä ja nykyisen minän asemoiminen esimerkiksi kokeneeksi, maailmaa nähneeksi tutkimusmatkailijaksi.
This article examines multimodal storytelling performed outside the main body text in book-length popular science. By employing a case study approach, the study examines three kinds of visually detached stories: i) fragmentary case stories of lay experience, ii) fictional stories of prehistorical lifeworld and iii) scientists’ personal stories with everyday photography. The article shows that detached stories are digressions from the locally, or also globally, dominant ways of making meaning. These digressions can be modality shifts (from verbal to multimodal) but also more complex shifts that engage with cultural boundaries of (popular) science. Furthermore, the article complements prior studies of photographic storytelling by discussing the affordances of everyday photography in public occasions. The analytic framework combines Systemic-Functional genre studies, Social Semiotic and related models of visual design as well as approaches to factuality and fictionality in Narrative Studies. The data consists of contemporary Finnish popular science books representing the natural sciences.
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