| The panel discusses mediated interaction as a strand of topic within CA. Interaction and collaboration are increasingly augmented with media and technology, supporting new social and linguistic forms, albeit indebted to established practices. The panel focuses on comparisons addressing similarities and differences of face-to-face and mediated interaction. The comparisons concern to what degree mediated interactions differ from canonical patterns of ordinary conversation, as in studies on institutional interaction. We pursue the key questions of CA and related studies on social interaction, identifying of how intersubjectivity and collaborative actions are achieved in mediated interaction. This allows us to specify and detail the ways in which interactions in mediated settings afford to new types of actions. The scrutiny of mediated settings also broadens the scope of CA as augmented interactions are essentially multi-modal. As much as we start from the canonical CA issues transplanted into multimedia and mediated environments, we end up touching parallel issues to those explored in the workplace studies, ethnographies of practice, or gesture analysis. Eventually, the broadened scope of CA inquiries may contribute to a full view of the composition of social action and interaction, all the more salient in the analysis of new kinds of interactions, ranging from interactive spaces to social robots. In all, the panel addresses the applicability of CA to the forms of computer-mediated communication, beginning from comparisons of mediated and face-to-face interactions, reaching both verbal and non-verbal composition of activities. The systematic reflection of canonical CA issues in multimedia and mediated environments both broadens our understanding of new augmented activity formats and contributes to CA and related approaches. The panel identifies, specifies and details new types of social actions, and opens discussion of the design relevance of multimodal CA. |
