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Aleksandr Shirokov @aleksandrshirokov.bsky.social · 7h

Thank you. Your paper on patients' narratives of symptom discovery was a huge inspiration!

Aleksandr Shirokov @aleksandrshirokov.bsky.social · 1d

My new paper on how patients use epistemic markers like “I read” and “I heard” is out. I show that epistemic markers allow patients to assert their agency while acknowledging medical authority
#EMCA
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“I read a bit of information”: Epistemic markers as a resource for enacting patients’ agency

As access to online health information grows, patients increasingly arrive at medical consultations informed but uncertain about how to display their …

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SSSI & SI Journal @sijournal.bsky.social · Aug 13

New on Early View: “Exploring the EMCA Community: Strengths, Challenges, and Opportunities” by Mehmet Ali Icbay https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.70010 #emca #sssi #ethnomethodology #conversationanalysis #science #community

We have just published New on Early View: "Exploring the EMCA Community:…

New on Early View: “Exploring the EMCA Community: Strengths, Challenges, and Opportunities” by Mehmet Ali Icbay https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.70010 #emca #sssi #ethnomethodology #conversationanalysis #science #community

We have just published New on Early View: "Exploring the EMCA Community: Strengths, Challenges, and Opportunities" by Mehmet Ali Icbay on Early View of Symbolic Interaction. Members of SSSI can access the article HERE and by clicking the image below. To join SSSI and subscribe to Symbolic Interaction from $35 (£30), please click HERE.

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Andrew Chalfoun @achalfoun.bsky.social · Aug 5

If you're going to be in Chicago tomorrow (August 6) come to the Voco hotel at 11am to catch my presentation, "Typical Expectations and the Moral Order: Talcott Parsons, Harold Garfinkel, and the Sticky Problem of Meaning" at the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction @sijournal.bsky.social!

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ROLSI journal @rolsi-journal.bsky.social · Aug 2

A useful and enlightening survey of members of the EM/CA community, especially of those whose voices are less often heard.

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ROLSI journal @rolsi-journal.bsky.social · May 30

Can you use AI in teaching Conversation Analysis?

@bogdanahuma.bsky.social reports using a remarkably real-sounding AI-generated podcast, ostensibly discussing a CA paper. Will students spot its mistakes, trivial and profound?

The new ROLSI.net blog here:
rolsi.net/2025/05/30/g...

An image generated by ChatGPT to the prompt "Produce a realistic image of a male and female podcast duo, discussing a topic in conversation analysis"

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Galina Bolden @galinabolden.bsky.social · May 14

(via John Heritage) For those of you who cannot attend this event, a livestream will begin May 18th at 2:15 Pacific on:
youtube.com/live/ldel0Ea...
Please pass this on! @iscaupdates.bsky.social #emca

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Lars E.F. Johannessen @larsjohannessen.bsky.social · Jan 15

This is too good to be true <3

"Many qualitative methodological approaches are already very vibey [...] In this article, I reflect on these approaches and outline some vibes-based methods. I discuss how vibes-based methods help us consider and work with the generative ambiguities of social life."

Vibes-based methods - Ash Watson, 2025

Vibes are having a moment and academics seem increasingly serious about understanding whatever the vibe is. Many qualitative methodological approaches are alrea...

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Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · Dec 18

**Updated #EMCA Starter Pack**

We're almost at the 150 max and therefore onto a second! Please repost to keep building our 🦋 community.

If you're a #ConversationAnalysis #DiscursivePsychology #MCA #Ethnomethodology researcher and want to be added (or removed!), reply below.

go.bsky.app/DHMkXcX

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Rutgers CA Lab @rucalteam.bsky.social · Dec 16

Last RUCAL data session of this season. See everyone next year!
@galinabolden.bsky.social @aleksandrshirokov.bsky.social

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Laura Jenkins @laalaajenkins.bsky.social · Dec 16

Final keynote and it’s a good one! Sally Wiggins Young on co-eating as a boundaried field of analysis.

A fun CA day 2024!

@profsalwiggins.bsky.social @darg-sessions.bsky.social #emca #LboroCAday2024 @lborouniversity.bsky.social

Pencil drawing of Sally Wiggins presenting

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Galina Bolden @galinabolden.bsky.social · Dec 6

It's wonderful to see this amazing resource now available online #EMCA
doi.org/10.1017/9781...

The Cambridge Handbook of Methods in Conversation Analysis

Cambridge Core - Discourse Analysis - The Cambridge Handbook of Methods in Conversation Analysis

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · Nov 30

"What my students paradoxically fail to realize, in their zeal to be responsible, is that describing things by certain characteristics rather than others merely because those characteristics are countable is a profoundly subjective decision."

Louis Johnston @ldjeconomics.bsky.social · Nov 30

The Myth of Objective Data, by Melanie Feinberg
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-myth-of-... via @mitpress.bsky.social

The Myth of Objective Data

When we view objectivity and subjectivity as opposites rather than complements, we distort the empirical realities of data collection.

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Aleksandr Shirokov @aleksandrshirokov.bsky.social · Nov 26

Thank you! Would love to be added

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · Nov 25

Interested in conversation analysis but don't know where to start? The next "CA for beginners" online one day workshop may be for you.
Thursday 16th January 2025
emcawiki.net/CA_for_Begin...
Registration £40 at:
store.lboro.ac.uk/product-cata...

CA for Beginners January 2025 - emcawiki

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Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · Nov 24

"'How are you?' These are the three most useless words in the world of communication."

This compelling (but wrong/daft) assertion is based on #communication myth rather than how we actually talk 🧐

And asking "how are you" can even save lives...

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[Bringing #EMCA threads to Bluesky!]

Screenshot of the US version of The Office accompanying the headline "Stop asking 'how are you'? Harvard researchers say this is what people do when making small talk"

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Yourqueerprof @drcompton.bsky.social · Nov 24

go.bsky.app/AynCrtw

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Heidi K Feldman @drheidi911.bsky.social · Nov 23

Incredible up and coming scholars at the Language and Social Interaction sessions at NCA. #EMCA

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Galina Bolden @galinabolden.bsky.social · Nov 22

RUCAL students at NCA 2024. Well done! @aleksandrshirokov.bsky.social

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Aleksandr Shirokov @aleksandrshirokov.bsky.social · Nov 21

Nadja Tadic's presentation "Categorizing the Self to Stereotype the Other" at #NCA2024
#CA #EMCA

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Aleksandr Shirokov @aleksandrshirokov.bsky.social · Nov 21

Kristella Montiegel's presentation "Invoking Time Limits for Managing Responses in US Senate Judiciary Committee Lower Court Nomination Hearings" at #NCA2024
#CA #EMCA

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Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · Sep 24

Here's an #EMCA #conversation analysis and #ethnomethodology #StarterPack #AcademicSky

Please RT and QT and add more to grow our community on here! 🦋

go.bsky.app/DHMkXcX

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Aleksandr Shirokov @aleksandrshirokov.bsky.social · Dec 28

My new paper on how pediatricians and parents pursue symptom reports from children through calibrating question design is out. The paper is part of a cool EMCA special section edited by Jessica Nina Lester, Francesca Williamson, and Michelle O'Reilly

Responsibility to report symptoms: Pursuing symptom reports from children in pediatric encounters

The paper focuses on cases in which children disconfirm a symptom previously reported by their parents and analyzes how doctors and parents continue a…

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