Location Sharing, Proximity Recognition and the Production of Interactionally Generated Encounters in Mobile Phone Conversations
| Panel: | P52 - Orders of Interaction in Mediated Settings |
| Author: | Licoppe, Christian |
| Author 2: | Julien Morel |
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| We analyze here some of the methods through which the production of encounters as “interactionally generated actions” (Sacks, 1992: 211) is practically achieved in mobile phone conversations The research is based on a corpus of 400 mobile conversations, from which we isolated those in which. the joint project to meet was produced as an emergent phenomenon through talk-in-interaction. We begin by discussing from this standpoint the differences between landline phone conversations and mobile phone conversations, which have been previously debated only with respect to the organization of openings (Hutchby and Barnett, 2005; Arminen, 2005). We will then show how an effective way to orient a mobile conversation towards a future encounter is to place a localization query at the first available slot after the opening sequence. We will proceed to identify a particular way for mobile conversationalists to do much of the preliminary work which furthers the emergence of a projected encounter: the participants work at sharing their location and mobility contexts so as to allow the other to recognize through talk-in interaction that they are ‘close’, ‘in the vicinity’, ‘in the neighborhood’, both ‘around’, etc. or will be so in the future. Participants orient towards the fact that such a mutual recognition of proximity, achieved through talk-in-interaction, ‘projects’ a face to face encounter as a relevant future action. |
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