1st Edition
People, Technology, and Social Organization Interactionist Studies of Everyday Life
1 Introduction
Dirk Vom Lehn, Will Gibson, and Natalia Ruiz-Junco
Part 1 Power and Control
2 Being Family and Friends to Abused Women – A Qualitative Study of Digital Media in Intimate Partner Violence
Susanne Boethius and Malin Åkerström
3 News, Sex, and the Fight Between Corporate Control and Human Communication Online
Michael Dellwing
4 Terminal Violence: Online Interactions and Infra-Humanization
Simon Gottschalk
5 Summing Up the Criminal Case Online
David Wästerfors
Part 2 Identity and Community
6 Organizing Subcultural Identities on Social Media: Instagram Infrastructures and User Actions
J. Patrick Williams and Samuel Judah
7 A Queer Kind of Stigma
Christopher T. Conner and Sarah Ann Sullivan
8 Symbolic Separation: The Amish and 21st-Century Technologies
Corey J. Colyer, Rachel E. Stein, and Katie E. Corcoran
Part 3 Practices and Technology
9 Receiving Phone Calls During Medical Consultations: The Production of Interactional Space for Technology Use
Aleksandr Shirokov, Iuliia Avgustis, and Andrei Korbut
10 Non-Talking Heads: How Architectures of Digital Copresence Shape Question-Silence-Answer-Sequences in University Teaching
Kenan Hochuli and Johanna Jud
11 The Role of Cursor Movements in a Screen-Based Video Game Interaction
Lydia Heiden, Heike Baldauf-Quilliatre, and Matthieu Quignard
12 Problems with the Digital Public Encounter
Daniela Boehringer
13 Smartphone Tooling: Achieving Perception by Positioning a Smartphone for Object Scanning
Louise Lüchow, Brian L. Due, and Ann Merrit Rikke Nielsen
Part 4 Reflections on Interactionist Studies of Technologies
14 Where Next for Interactionist Studies of Technology?
Dirk Vom Lehn, Will Gibson, and Natalia Ruiz-Junco
Biography
Dirk vom Lehn is Professor of Organization and Practice at King’s Business School/King’s College London, co-editor of The Routledge International Handbook of Interactionism, and author of Harold Garfinkel: The Creation and Development of Ethnomethodology.
Will Gibson is Professor of Interactional Sociology and Qualitative Research at the Institute of Education, University College London, co-editor of The Routledge International Handbook of Interactionism and co-author of Institutions, Interaction and Social Theory.
Natalia Ruiz-Junco is Associate Professor of Sociology at Auburn University, USA, and co-editor of Updating Charles H. Cooley: Contemporary Perspectives on a Sociological Classic and The Routledge International Handbook of Interactionism.
“The volume People, Technology, and Social Organization: Interactionist Studies of Everyday Life, edited by Dirk vom Lehn,Will Gibson, and Natalia Ruiz-Junco (2024), makes a timely contribution to research on technology use […]. A reader who seeks an insight into what social life looks like in a world full of technology will not be disappointed […]. The volume offers an exciting sample of astute observations on the routine use of technological tools. The chapters illuminate a wide diversity of interactional situations and the role of technology in them […]. The volume offers insights into the methodology of interactional studies of technology. The empirical chapters represent a variety of research methods: from online and auto-ethnography to qualitative interviews and conversational analysis […]. The volume can be interesting from the perspective of both how technology is used in everyday life and how such daily life filled with technology can be studied. The book richly illustrates the ways in which people apply technological tools and the meaning these tools acquire in social situations. The collection (especially some of its chapters) also invites reflection on how human beings relate to themselves and others in a technological world.” - Nataliya Thell, Symbolic Interaction
