Embeddedness and sequentiality in social media

Reeves, Stuart; Brown, Barry

Abstract

Over the last decade, there has been an explosion of work around social media within CSCW. A range of perspectives have been applied to the use of social media, which we characterise as aggregate, actor-focussed or a combination. We outline the opportunities for a perspective informed by ethnomethodology and conversation analysis (EMCA)—an orientation that has been influential within CSCW, yet has only rarely been applied to social media use. EMCA approaches can complement existing perspectives through articulating how social media is embedded in the everyday lives of its users and how sequentiality of social media use organises this embeddedness. We draw on a corpus of screen and ambient audio recordings of mobile device use to show how EMCA research is generative for understanding social media through concepts such as adjacency pairs, sequential context, turn allocation / speaker selection, and repair.

Citation

Reeves, S., & Brown, B. (2016, February). Embeddedness and sequentiality in social media. Presented at 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, San Francisco, California

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
• Start Date: Feb 27, 2016
• End Date: Mar 2, 2016
• Acceptance Date: Feb 1, 2016
• Online Publication Date: Feb 27, 2016
• Publication Date: Feb 27, 2016
• Deposit Date: Oct 15, 2015
• Publicly Available Date: Feb 27, 2016
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 1052-1064
• Book Title: CSCW '16 Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing
• ISBN: 978-1-4503-3592-8
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2818048.2820008
• Keywords: Social media research; social network analysis; ethnomethodology; conversation analysis
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/978650
• Publisher URL: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2818048.2820008
• Contract Date: Oct 15, 2015