Aleksandr Shirokov
@aleksandrshirokov.bsky.social
PhD candidate at Rutgers University
Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis, doctor-patient interaction, human-computer interaction.
Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis, doctor-patient interaction, human-computer interaction.
Today I successfully defended my PhD dissertation!
Thank you very much to the committee members, @galinabolden.bsky.social @alexahepburn.bsky.social Lisa Mikesell, Jeff Robinson, and other @rucalteam.bsky.social members, for years of support and guidance.
Thank you very much to the committee members, @galinabolden.bsky.social @alexahepburn.bsky.social Lisa Mikesell, Jeff Robinson, and other @rucalteam.bsky.social members, for years of support and guidance.
November 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Today I successfully defended my PhD dissertation!
Thank you very much to the committee members, @galinabolden.bsky.social @alexahepburn.bsky.social Lisa Mikesell, Jeff Robinson, and other @rucalteam.bsky.social members, for years of support and guidance.
Thank you very much to the committee members, @galinabolden.bsky.social @alexahepburn.bsky.social Lisa Mikesell, Jeff Robinson, and other @rucalteam.bsky.social members, for years of support and guidance.
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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October 14, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#EMCA
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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:…
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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August 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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:…
We have just published New on Early View: "Exploring the EMCA Community:…
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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!
August 5, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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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A useful and enlightening survey of members of the EM/CA community, especially of those whose voices are less often heard.
I’m thrilled to share that my latest paper on the #EMCA community has just been published online in Symbolic Interaction! A big thank you to the participants, contributors, and anonymous reviewers for their insights, time, and support throughout the process.
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August 2, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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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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...
@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...
May 30, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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...
@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...
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(via John Heritage) For those of you who cannot attend this event, a livestream will begin May 18th at 2:15 Pacific on:
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Please pass this on! @iscaupdates.bsky.social #emca
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Please pass this on! @iscaupdates.bsky.social #emca
May 14, 2025 at 11:49 PM
(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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Please pass this on! @iscaupdates.bsky.social #emca
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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."
"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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January 15, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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."
"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."
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**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
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
December 18, 2024 at 3:15 PM
**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
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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Last RUCAL data session of this season. See everyone next year!
@galinabolden.bsky.social @aleksandrshirokov.bsky.social
@galinabolden.bsky.social @aleksandrshirokov.bsky.social
December 16, 2024 at 10:45 PM
Last RUCAL data session of this season. See everyone next year!
@galinabolden.bsky.social @aleksandrshirokov.bsky.social
@galinabolden.bsky.social @aleksandrshirokov.bsky.social
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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
A fun CA day 2024!
@profsalwiggins.bsky.social @darg-sessions.bsky.social #emca #LboroCAday2024 @lborouniversity.bsky.social
December 16, 2024 at 5:53 PM
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
A fun CA day 2024!
@profsalwiggins.bsky.social @darg-sessions.bsky.social #emca #LboroCAday2024 @lborouniversity.bsky.social
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"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."
The Myth of Objective Data, by Melanie Feinberg
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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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November 30, 2024 at 9:34 PM
"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."
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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...
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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November 25, 2024 at 2:02 PM
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...
Thursday 16th January 2025
emcawiki.net/CA_for_Begin...
Registration £40 at:
store.lboro.ac.uk/product-cata...
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"'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...
🧵 1/15
[Bringing #EMCA threads to Bluesky!]
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...
🧵 1/15
[Bringing #EMCA threads to Bluesky!]
November 24, 2024 at 6:05 PM
"'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...
🧵 1/15
[Bringing #EMCA threads to Bluesky!]
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...
🧵 1/15
[Bringing #EMCA threads to Bluesky!]
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November 24, 2024 at 3:46 PM
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RUCAL students at NCA 2024. Well done! @aleksandrshirokov.bsky.social
November 22, 2024 at 4:53 PM
RUCAL students at NCA 2024. Well done! @aleksandrshirokov.bsky.social
November 21, 2024 at 9:38 PM
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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
Please RT and QT and add more to grow our community on here! 🦋
go.bsky.app/DHMkXcX
September 24, 2024 at 10:25 PM
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
Please RT and QT and add more to grow our community on here! 🦋
go.bsky.app/DHMkXcX
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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December 28, 2023 at 9:59 PM
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