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Overview Chapter 4
• Being social • Face to face conversations • Remote conversations • Tele-presence Tele presence • Co-presence • Emergent social phenomena
Social Interaction
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Conversational mechanisms
Being social
• Various mechanisms and ‘rules’ are followed when holding a conversation, e.g.mutual greetings
• Are F2F conversations being superseded by our social media interactions? • How many friends do you have on Facebook,, LinkedIn,, vs real life? • How much overlap? • How are the ways we live and interact with one another changing? • Are the established rules and etiquette still applicable to online and offline?
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Hi there Hi! Hi All right? Good, how’s it going? Fine, how are you? OK So-so. How’s life treating you?
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Conversational rules
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Conversational rules
• Sacks et al. (1978) work on conversation analysis describe three basic rules: Rule 1: the current speaker chooses the next speaker by asking an opinion, opinion question, question or request Rule 2: another person decides to start speaking Rule 3: the current speaker continues talking
• Turn-taking used to coordinate conversation – A: Shall we meet at 8? – B: Um, can we meet a bit later? – – – –
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Shall we meet at 8? Wow, look at him? Yes what a funny hairdo! Um, can we meet a bit later?
• Back channeling to signal to continue and following – Uh-uh, umm, ahh www.id-book.com
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