Across the social sciences as well as some of the technical sciences like CSCW or HCI there is great interest in “interaction”. Studies explore interaction between systems, interaction between human beings, often called “users”, and systems, interaction between two or more people and much more. In 2011, together with Will Gibson (UCL/IoE) I co-edited a Special Issue of Symbolic Interaction (Vol.34(3)) concerned with different ways in interaction features in symbolic interactionism. The introduction to the Special Issue can be found HERE. Below is the Table of Content of the issue:-

Symbolic Interaction Vol.34(3)

                   Interaction and Symbolic Interactionism (pages 315–318)

Dirk vom Lehn and Will Gibson

1. 1. Interaction Ritual Theory and Structural Symbolic Interactionism (pages 319–329)Chris Hausmann, Amy Jonason and Erika Summers-Effler

      Extending the Symbolic Interactionist Theory of Interaction Processes: A Conceptual Outline (pages 330–339)

      Jonathan H. Turner

       

      Toward a Theory of Interaction: The Iowa School (pages 340–348)

      Dan E. Miller

       

      Symbolic Interactionism and Ethnomethodology (pages 349–356)

      Alex Dennis

       

      Goffman’s Interaction Order at the Margins: Stigma, Role, and Normalization in the Outreach Encounter (pages 357–376)

      Robin James Smith

       

      Discrimination and Reaction: The Practical Constitution of Social Exclusion(pages 377–397)

      Venetia Evergeti

       

       

      “Scissors, Please”: The Practical Accomplishment of Surgical Work in the Operating Theater (pages 398–414)Jeff Bezemer, Ged Murtagh, Alexandra Cope, Gunther Kress and Roger Kneebone

       

      Book Review

      Examining Interaction Using Video (pages 415–420)René Tuma