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Analysing Digital Interaction

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Editors:
  1. Joanne Meredith

    1. Department of Psychology, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, UK

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  2. David Giles

    1. Department of Psychology, University of Winchester, Winchester, UK

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  3. Wyke Stommel

    1. Center for Language Studies, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

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  • Investigates interaction-focused scholarship on online communication
  • Addresses ethical, methodological and theoretical issues of analysing online social interaction
  • Guides readers in how Discursive Psychology and Conversation Analysis can be used to study online interaction

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Discursive Psychology (PSDP)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction: The Microanalysis of Digital Interaction

    • Joanne Meredith, David Giles, Wyke J. P. Stommel
    Pages 1-21

  3. Ethical Challenges in Collecting and Analysing Online Interactions

    • Hannah Ditchfield
    Pages 23-40

  4. Context, History, and Twitter Data: Some Methodological Reflections

    • David Giles
    Pages 41-63

  5. “It’s time to shift this blog a bit”: Categorial Negotiation as a Local and Cumulative Accomplishment

    • Linda Walz
    Pages 65-86

  6. The Radio Host Cried, the Facebook Users Identified: Crying as an Action Linked to ‘good people’

    • Elisabeth Muth Andersen
    Pages 87-109

  7. “On that note I’m signing out”: Endings of Threads in Online Newspaper Comments

    • Joanne Meredith
    Pages 111-132

  8. Similarities and Differences Across Settings: The Case of Turn Continuations in Instant Messaging

    • Anna Spagnolli, Sonia Genovese, Mattia Mori
    Pages 133-154

  9. The Spectre of ‘Ghosting’ and the Sequential Organization of Post-match Tinder Chat Conversations

    • Christian Licoppe
    Pages 155-176

  10. Participation of Companions in Video-Mediated Medical Consultations: A Microanalysis

    • Wyke J. P. Stommel, Martijn W. J. Stommel
    Pages 177-203

  11. Conclusion: Future Directions in Analysing Digital Interaction

    • Janet Smithson
    Pages 205-215

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 217-220
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About this book

This book investigates interaction-focused scholarship on online communication. It focuses on a broad range of online contexts including social media, dating apps, online comments, instant messaging and video-mediated interaction. Bringing together experts from a variety of scholarly backgrounds, chapters demonstrate how different microanalytic methods, including conversation analysis, membership categorization analysis and discursive psychology, can be applied to online communication. The book also goes on to address ethical, methodological and theoretical issues of analysing online social interaction. 

With the explosion of the use of online platforms for everyday and institutional interaction, this book is a timely collection which explores the current state of the field, and considers future directions for microanalysis of online communication. 

Reviews

“Analysing Digital Interaction is an extremely timely contribution representing an important statement on how methods from CA, MCA, and DP can inform our understanding of the rapid social socio-technological that we are currently experiencing. … Flexible and sensitive analytic methods such as those discussed here are capable of rendering distinctive views of these interactional nuances and they are critical to help us understand these rapidly evolving forms of life.” (Will Gibson, Symbolic Interaction, March 14, 2023)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Psychology, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, UK

    Joanne Meredith

  • Department of Psychology, University of Winchester, Winchester, UK

    David Giles

  • Center for Language Studies, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Wyke Stommel

About the editors

Joanne Meredith is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. Dr Meredith was awarded her PhD in social psychology from Loughborough University, UK focusing on the analysis of instant messaging interaction using conversation analysis. She has a particular interest in the development of conversation analysis and discursive psychology as methods for analysing online interaction. 

David Giles is Reader in Psychology at the University of Winchester, UK. Dr Giles has been writing about media and human behaviour for over two decades, specializing in the relationship between audiences and media figures, particularly celebrities. His books include Illusions of Immortality (2000) and Twenty-First Century Celebrity (2018). He co-founded, and continues to co-edit, the international peer-reviewed journal Qualitative Research in Psychology. 

Wyke Stommel is Assistant Professor in Dutch Language and Culture at Radboud University, The Netherlands. Dr Stommel obtained her PhD from the University of Frankfurt / Main for a study of online support group interaction. Her research focuses on (mediated) interaction in institutional settings using conversation analysis, including chat counselling and video consultations. 

Short videos from each chapter author, introducing their research, are available to view here: https://sites.google.com/view/analysingdigitalinteraction/home  




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