Providing Epistemic Support for Assessments Through Mobile-Supported Sharing Activities

Abstract

This paper examines how participants in face-to-face conversation employ mobile phones as a resource for social action. We focus on what we call mobile-supported sharing activities, in which participants use a mobile phone to share text or images with others by voicing text aloud from their mobile or providing others with visual access to the device’s display screen. Drawing from naturalistic video recordings, we focus on how mobile-supported sharing activities invite assessments by providing access to an object that is not locally accessible to the participants. Such practices make relevant co-participants’ assessment of these objects and allow for different forms of co-participation across sequence types. We additionally examine how the organization of assessments during these sharing activities displays sensitivity to preference structure. The analysis illustrates the relevance of embodiment, local objects, and new communicative technologies to the production of action in co-present interaction. Data are in American English.

Teachers' Demonstrations of Epistemic Access in Teacher-Student Interactions in a Digital Setting

“…type 2 knowable, Pomerantz, 1980) and/or by explicit or implicit reference to the hitches in student's progress. In these excerpts, teachers are clearly oriented to the digital devices as an object that provides epistemic support (Raclaw, Robles & DiDomenico, 2016) for the identification of a problem. Excerpt 3 illustrates that students also use the information provided by the digital device to address their progress from an analytical perspective, rather than from an experiential point of view.…”

“…Raclaw, Robles & DiDomenico, 2016). The latter study for instance zooms in on how participants in face-to-face interaction employ mobile phones to provide epistemic support for assessments (Raclaw, Robles & DiDomenico, 2016).…”

Attending to the Mobile Text Summons: Managing Multiple Communicative Activities Across Physically Copresent and Technologically Mediated Interpersonal Interactions

“…mobile phones as consequentially relevant to an aspect of a conversational action (DiDomenico & Boase, 2013;Raclaw et al, 2016).…”

“…It is important to note that our analysis does not simply impose an a priori relevance of the technological affordances of these mobile phones onto the participants’ conduct. Rather, we ground our claims about these features through the participants’ ongoing demonstrable orientations to their mobile phones as consequentially relevant to an aspect of a conversational action (DiDomenico & Boase, 2013; Raclaw et al, 2016).…”

“…As such, we understand the mobile phone as affording new opportunities for accomplishing human interaction while also considering the autonomous behavior of participants situated in the interaction (cf. DiDomenico & Boase, 2013; Raclaw, Robles, & DiDomenico, 2016).…”