In June, I wrote a short piece about the practice of theorising, ethnomethodology, and the pandemic for the Magazine of The Sociological Review. The brief text can be accessed HERE or by clicking the image below.
The changing role of the optometrist in assessing eye-sight and eye health during and after Covid-19
King’s Business School have a 4 year, fully funded PhD studentship (fees and stipend) available to undertake research concerned with communication and interaction in remote optometry consultations. The successful candidate will be expected to undertake qualitative, in-depth, studies of the organisation of eye examinations undertaken via telephone, video-phone, etc. Their research will relate to previous video-based studies of communication and interaction undertaken by the supervisory team.
The successful candidate will be a member of the Work, Interaction & Technology Research Group at King’s Business School. Members of the WIT Group are concerned with social interaction in organisational settings, examining the interplay between social interaction and technology. Candidates will undertake naturalistic studies of communication and interaction in optometry that draw on ethnographic and video-based research methods. They will have a social science background and have received training in qualitative research methods, including ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, ethnography, qualitative interviewing and grounded theory.
The PhD project will be undertaken in collaboration with the College of Optometrists and co-supervised by Professor Dirk vom Lehn (KCL) and Professor Peter Allen (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge). It, therefore, provides candidates with the opportunity to develop a distinctive approach to their research.
The successful candidate will begin in October 2021.
For further information, please contact Professor Dirk vom Lehn at dirk.vom_lehn@kcl.ac.uk
Application Information
Early applications are encouraged. Applicants are strongly advised to contact the supervisor Professor Dirk vom Lehn at dirk.vom_lehn@kcl.ac.uk
Please submit the following to kbs-phd@kcl.ac.uk
Note – applicants must check that they meet our entry requirements prior to applying
You should hold, or be completing, a Master’s degree with a Merit or higher (or overseas equivalent) and have achieved a 2:1 Bachelor’s degree (or overseas equivalent) in a relevant subject.
If you are a native English speaker or have been awarded a degree within the last five years from one of the countries listed here, you may not be required to take an English language test. English language competency is assessed on a case-by-case basis.
If your first language is not English you must be able to provide recent evidence that your spoken and written command of the English language is adequate for the programmes for which you have applied. Check our English language requirements here (Band B). You can use our pre-sessional English calculator to check if your language scores meet our requirements.
Please note, we cannot review individual eligibility before you apply and are only able to consider complete applications which include all supporting documents.
Application Procedure
Shortlisted candidates will be invited to an interview and the successful candidate will be asked to submit their formal application via King’s Apply online system.
Please contact kbs-phd@kcl.ac.uk if you have any queries regarding the application procedure.
Part 1
Dirk vom Lehn, Natalia Ruiz-Junco and Will Gibson
Part 2 – Varieties of Interactionism
2.1. Pragmatism and Interactionism – Frithjof Nungesser
2.2. Blumer, Symbolic Interactionism and 21st century sociology – Thomas J. Morrione
2.3. Straussian Negotiated Order Theory c.1960-Present – Adele Clarke
2.4. Recent Developments in the New Iowa School of Symbolic Interactionism – Michael Katovich and Shing-Ling S. Chen
2.5. Dramaturgical Framework and Interactionism – Greg Smith
2.6. Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis: The Other Interactionism – Jason Turowetz and Anne Warfield Rawls
Part 3–Self, Identity, and Emotions
3.1 Click, Validate, and Reply: Three Paradoxes of the Terminal Self – Simon Gottschalk
3.2. Animal Selfhood – Leslie Irvine
3.3. The Self and the Supernatural – Rachael Ironside
3.4. The (Un)Healthy Body and the Self – Lisa Jean Moore and Sumayra Khan
3.5. Identity and Racialisation – Matt Hughey & Michael Rosino
3.6. Symbolic Interaction beyond Binaries – J.E. Sumerau
3.7. Culture and Emotion: Interactionist Perspectives – Doyle McCarthy
Part 4 – Social Organisation
4.1. Organizations and Institutions – Patrick McGinty
4.2. Symbolic Interactionism, Social Structure, and Social Change: Historical Debates and Contemporary Challenges – Stacey Hannem
4.3. Mental Health and Symbolic Interactionism: Untapped Opportunities – Baptiste Brossard
4.4. Handling Video of [Police] Violence: Theoretical versus Practical Analyses
– Patrick Watson & Albert J. Meehan
4.5. Space, Mobility, and Interaction – Robin James Smith
4.6. Nature and the Environment in Interaction – Anthony Puddephatt
4.7. The Social Construction of Time – Michael G. Flaherty
4.8. Collective Memory – Lisa-Jo van den Scott
Part 5 – Interactionism, Media and the Internet
5.1. Media Logic, Fear, and the Construction of Terrorism – David Altheide
5.2. Public Fear and the Media – Joel Best
5.3. Policing and Social Media – Chris Schneider
5.4. Interactionism and online identity: How has interactionism contributed to understandings of online identity? – Hannah Ditchfield
5.5. Physical Co-presence and Distinctive Features of Online Interactions – Xiaoli Tian and Yui Fung Yip
5.6. Happy Birthday Michael Jackson: Dead Celebrity and Online Interaction – Kerry O. Ferris
5.7. Multi-Player Online Gaming – David Kirschner
Part 6 – New Developments in Methods
6.1. Situational Analysis as Critical Pragmatist Interactionism – Carrie Friese, Rachel Washburn & Adele Clarke
6.2. Video in Interactionist Research – René Tuma
6.3. Digital Naturalism: Ethnography in Networked Worlds: Ethnography in Networked Worlds – Michael Dellwing
6.4. Ethics in Symbolic Interactionist Research – Will & Deborah van den Hoonard
Part 7 – Reimagining Interactionism
7.1. Toward an expanded Definition of Interactionism – Linda Liska Belgrave, Kapriskie Seide and Kathy Charmaz
7.2. Some Antinomies of Interactionism – Martyn Hammersley
7.3. Interactionist Research: Extending Methods, Extending Fields – Emilie Morwenna Whitaker & Paul Atkinson
7.4. The New Horizons of Symbolic Interactionism – Kent Sandstrom, Lisa K. van den Scott & Gary Alan Fine
This was fun! Over the past couple years, I worked with Natalia Ruiz-Junco, Will Gibson and over 30 colleagues on the production of the International Routledge Handbook of Interactionism. The book is currently prepared for publication on May 27th. The electronic version of the Handbook which is much more affordable than the printed book, can already be purchased.
Because we had so much fun cooperating on this book, we are planning our next joint project already. We are currently working on an edited book with the working title “People, Technology, and Social Organization: interactionist studies of everyday life”. A Call for Abstracts with a deadline of May 15th can be accessed here.
Dirk vom Lehn, Will Gibson and Natalia Ruiz-Junco are developing a new co-edited book project with the working-title,
“People, Technology, and Social Organization: interactionist studies of everyday life”.
In light of the increasing importance of technology in all parts of our lives the chapters to be included in the co-edited book will reveal how technology is oriented to and embedded within the social organization of action in a wide range of settings and institutions, such as education, markets, arts and culture, health and social care, media, politics, science and others. In their analyses, the contributing authors will adopt interactionist and cognate perspectives to explore how the meanings of technology emerge and are negotiated within and through action and interaction.
The proposed volume will comprise around 10 empirical chapters from interactionist researchers working in fields such as symbolic interactionism, ethnomethodology, conversation analysis, discourse methods, ethnographic enquiry, video-based methods, and others. Submissions may draw on a diversity of research methods and data sources, and should draw from empirical analyses of interaction.
The co-edited book is primarily aimed at researchers in the social sciences and beyond whose work is concerned with the interplay between social interaction, technology, and institutions.
Submissions should comprise a title and an abstract of no more than 250 words. Abstracts should describe the setting and the technology being studied, the conceptual/theoretical framework (where relevant), the data being analysed, and the key findings and claims emerging from the analysis. The submission should include up to five keywords, the author(s)’ name, institutional affiliation, and contact details.
Please send your title and abstract with the Subject line: People, Technology, and Social Organization, to Dirk vom Lehn (dirk.vom_lehn@kcl.ac.uk) by 15 May 2021. We plan to submit the final manuscript to the publisher in the summer of 2022.
In light of the publication of the “Special Issue on the Senses in Social Interaction” Will Gibson and I wrote a short piece on interactionism and sensory sociology for Sociology Lens.
Symbolic Interaction (@sijournal) has just published our Special Issue on ‘The Senses in Social Interaction’ (Vol.44(1)). The Table of Contents is below.
Will Gibson and Dirk vom Lehn – Introduction: The Senses in Social Interaction [Open Access] https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.539
Danielle Pillet-Shore – “When to Make the Sensory Social: Registering in Face‐to‐Face Openings” https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.481 (with video abstract)
Giolo Fele and Ken Liberman – “Some Discovered Practices of Lay Coffee Drinkers” https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.486
Lorenza Mondada – “Orchestrating Multi‐sensoriality in Tasting Sessions: Sensing Bodies, Normativity, and Language” https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.472
Sally Wiggins and Leelo Keevallik – “Enacting Gustatory Pleasure on Behalf of Another: The Multimodal Coordination of Infant Tasting Practices” https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.527
Francesca Astrid Salvadori and Giampietro Gobo – “Sensing the Bike: Creating a Collaborative Unerstanding of a Multi-Sensorial Experience in MotoGP Racing” https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.529
Brian Due – Distributed Perception: Co‐Operation between Sense‐Able, Actionable, and Accountable Semiotic Agents https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.538
Sylvie Grosjean, Frederik Matte and Isaac Nahon-Serfaty – “Sensory Ordering” in Nurses’ Clinical Decision‐Making: Making Visible Senses, Sensing, and “Sensory Work” in the Hospital” https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.490
David Matthew Edmonds and Christian Greiffenhagen – “Configuring Prospective Sensations: Experimenters Preparing Participants for What They Might Feel” https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.485
Eduardo de la Fuente and Michael James Walsh – “Framing Atmospheres: Goffman, Space, and Music in Everyday Life” https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.506
Book Reviews
Brigitte Biehl – “Atmospheres always open to change” – Review of ‘Atmospheres and the Experiential World: Theory and Methods’ By Sumartojo, Shanti and Pink, Sarah ( Routledge, 2019) – https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.507
Don Everhart- “Phenomenology, Ethnomethodology, and Intercorporeality” Review of ‘Intercorporeality: Emerging Socialities in Interaction’ edited by Christian Meyer, Juergen Streeck, and J. Scott Jordan (OUP, 2019) https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.523
Jessica S. Robles – “Contact: Pushing the Boundaries of Touch‐in‐Interaction” – Review of ‘Touch in Social Interaction: Touch, Language, and Body’ edited by Asta Cekaite and Lorenza Mondada (Routledge, 2019) https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.524
Jeffrey van den Scott – “Loud, Fast, and Hard: Changing Identities in a Musical Subculture” – Review of ‘Psychobilly: Subcultural Survival’ By Kimberly Kattari (Temple University Press, 2020) https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.522
James Fletcher – “Finding Order through Disorder: Dementia as a Reflection of Social Organization” – Review of ‘Forgetting Items: The Social Experience of Alzheimer’s Disease’ By Baptiste Brossard (Indiana University Press, 2019).
Chris Land – “An Oasis of Beer in the Desert of the Real?” – Review of ‘Vegas Brews: Craft Beer and the Birth of a Local Scene’ by Borer, Michael Ian (NYU, 2019) – https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.512
Judson G. Everitt – “Emotions, Interactions, and Institutions in Preschool Teaching” – Review of ‘Between Teaching and Caring in the Preschool: Talk, Interaction, and the Preschool Teacher Identity‘ by John C. Pruit https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.487
Philippe Sormani – “Reflexive Ethnography as “Data Science”? A Sociological Contribution to Praxeology” – Review of ‘Daten‐Karrieren und epistemische Materialität: Eine wissenschaftssoziologische Studie zur methodologischen Praxis der Ethnografie By Meier zu Verl, Christian ( J. B. Metzler Verlag, 2018) https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.488
Noreen M. Sugrue – “Evolutionary Explanation Meets Social Reality” – Review of ‘Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society’ by Nicolas Christakis (Little Brown Spark, 2019). https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.483
About a year ago, Symbolic Interaction published a Call for Papers for a Special Issue on ‘The Senses in Social Interaction’ that I co-edit with Will Gibson (UCL). Once published, probably in 2021, the Special Issue will explore the senses as interactional phenomena. Symbolic Interaction has recently begun to publish some of the articles on Early View:
Will Gibson and Dirk vom Lehn – Introduction: The Senses in Social Interaction [Open Access] https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.539
Eduardo de la Fuente and Michael James Walsh – “Framing Atmospheres: Goffman, Space, and Music in Everyday Life” https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.506
Giolo Fele and Ken Liberman – “Some Discovered Practices of Lay Coffee Drinkers” https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.486
Brian Due – Distributed Perception: Co‐Operation between Sense‐Able, Actionable, and Accountable Semiotic Agents https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.538
Lorenza Mondada – “Orchestrating Multi‐sensoriality in Tasting Sessions: Sensing Bodies, Normativity, and Language” https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.472
Sally Wiggins and Leelo Keevallik – “Enacting Gustatory Pleasure on Behalf of Another: The Multimodal Coordination of Infant Tasting Practices” https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.527
Danielle Pillet-Shore – “When to Make the Sensory Social: Registering in Face‐to‐Face Openings” https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.481 (with video abstract)
Francesca Astrid Salvadori and Giampietro Gobo – “Sensing the Bike: Creating a Collaborative Unerstanding of a Multi-Sensorial Experience in MotoGP Racing” https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.529
David Matthew Edmonds and Christian Greiffenhagen – “Configuring Prospective Sensations: Experimenters Preparing Participants for What They Might Feel” https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.485
Sylvie Grosjean, Frederik Matte and Isaac Nahon-Serfaty – “Sensory Ordering” in Nurses’ Clinical Decision‐Making: Making Visible Senses, Sensing, and “Sensory Work” in the Hospital” https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.490
Book Reviews
Brigitte Biehl – “Atmospheres always open to change” – Review of ‘Atmospheres and the Experiential World: Theory and Methods’ By Sumartojo, Shanti and Pink, Sarah ( Routledge, 2019) – https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.507
Chis Land – “An Oasis of Beer in the Desert of the Real?” – Review of ‘Vegas Brews: Craft Beer and the Birth of a Local Scene’ by Borer, Michael Ian (NYU, 2019) – https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.512
more reviews to be added.
#digitalization #experience #interaction #interactivity #museums #participation #technology
The publication of “The Routledge International Handbook of New Digital Practices in Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums and Heritage Sites” edited by Hannah Lewi, Wally Smith, Dirk vom Lehn, & Steve Cooke has been announced for November 15th, 2019. The book includes interviews by Seb Chan (ACMI), Dave Patten (Science Museum London), Rory Hyde (Victoria & Albert Museum, London), and Keir Winesmith (SFMOMA) as well as chapters covering four broad themes: “THE EMERGING GLOBAL DIGITAL GLAM SECTOR”, “ANIMATING THE ARCHIVE”, “DESIGNING ENGAGED EXPERIENCE”, and “LOCATING IN PLACE”.
More information about the Handbook can be accessed on the publisher’s website by clicking the image below (apologies for the steep price!).
| New Practices in Digital Media design in Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums and Heritage Sites | Hannah Lewi, Wally Smith, Steven Cooke, Dirk vom Lehn |
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FRAMING INTERVIEWS |
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| Interview with Seb Chan, ACMI | Seb Chan, Hannah Lewi and Wally Smith |
| Interview with Dave Patten, Science Museum London | David Patten, Dirk vom Lehn and Wally Smith |
| Interview with Rory Hyde, V&A Museum | Rory Hyde, Dirk vom Lehn and Wally Smith |
| Interview with Keir Winesmith, SFMOMA | Keir Winesmith, Hannah Lewi and Wally Smith |
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PART 1. THE EMERGING GLOBAL DIGITAL GLAM SECTOR |
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| Digitizations, users and curatorial agency within complex global machinic jurisdictions | Fiona Cameron |
| The distributed museum: the flight of cultural authority and the multiple times and spaces of the art museum | Andrew Dewdney |
| The distributed museum is already here–it’s just not very evenly distributed | Ed Rodley |
| Speculative Collections and the Emancipatory Library | Bethany Nowviskie |
| Chinese Museums’ Digital Heritage Profile: An Evaluation of Digital Technology Adoption in Cultural Heritage Institutions | Andrew White and Eugene Ch’ng |
| Hacking heritage: understanding the limits of online access | Tim Sherratt |
| From Planned Oblivion to Digital Exposition: The Digital Museum of Afro-Brazilian Heritage | Livio Sansone |
| Shared Digital Experiences Supporting Collaborative Meaning-Making at Heritage Sites | Sara Perry, Maria Roussou, Sophia S. Mirashrafi, Akrivi Katifori, and Sierra McKinney |
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PART 2. ANIMATING THE ARCHIVE |
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| Neither A Beginning Nor An End: Applying An Ethics of Care to Digitizing Archival Collections in South Asia | Michelle Caswell and Marika Cifor |
| Digital Archives in Africa and the Endangered Archives Programme | Graeme Counsel |
| The Alan Vaughan-Richards Archive: recovering tropical modernism in Lagos. | Ola Uduku |
| Museum Crowdsourcing—Detecting the Limits: eMunch.no and the Digitisation of Letters Addressed to Edvard Munch | Joanna Iranowska |
| Digital and hybrid archives: a case study of the William J Mitchell collection | Thomas Kvan, Peter Neish and Naomi Mullumby |
| Preserving Chinese Shadow Puppetry Culture Through Digitisation | Tin-Kai Chen |
| Be Engaged: Facilitating Creative Re-use at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision | Gregory Markus, Maarten Brinkerink, Brigitte Jansen |
| Cultural Antinomies, Creative Complicities: Agan Harahap’s Digital Hoaxes | Alexandra Moschovi and Alexander Supartono |
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PART 3. DESIGNING ENGAGED EXPERIENCE |
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| On Virtual Auras: The Cultural Heritage Object in the Age of 3D Digital Reproduction | John Hindmarch, Melissa Terras and Steve Robson |
| Configuring Slow Technology Through Social and Embodied Interaction: Making Time for Reflection in Augmented Reality Museum Experiences with Young Visitors | Areti Galani and Rachel Clarke |
| Exhibition Design and Professional Theories: the Development of an Astronomy Exhibition | Dirk vom Lehn, Kate Sang, Richard Glassborow and Louise King |
| Meeting the Challenge of the Immoveable: Experiencing Mogao Grottoes Cave 45 With Immersive Technology | Jeffrey Levin, Robert, Checchi, Lori Wong, Garson Yu and Edwin Baker |
| Immersive Engagement: Designing and Testing a Virtual Indian Residential School Exhibition | Adam Muller |
| Hemispheres: transdisciplinary architectures and museum-university collaboration | Sarah Kenderdine |
| Human-Centred Design in Digital Media | Indigo Hanlee |
| Unlocking the Glass Case | Peter Higgins |
| The law of feeling: experiments in a Yolngu museology | Paul Gurrumuruway and Jennifer Deger |
| Henry VR: designing affect-oriented virtual reality exhibitions for art museums | Paula Dredge, Anne Gerard-Austin, Simon Ives and Andrew Yip |
| Website as publishing platform | Tim Jones and David Simpson |
| From Shelf to Web: First Reflections on the O’Donnell Marginalia Project | Julia Kuehns |
| Interpreting the Future | Tony Holzner |
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PART 4. LOCATING IN PLACE |
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| What Could Have Bean? A Digital Construction of Charles Bean’s Australian War Memorial | Anthea Gunn |
| Succession: A Generative Approach to Digital Collections | Mitchell Whitelaw |
| Rephotography and the Situating of Then-and-Now | Hannah Lewi and Andrew Murray |
| Hospicio Cabañas: Seeing World Heritage Through Google’s Eyes | Cristina Garduno Freeman |
| The Experience of Using Digital Walking Tours to Explore Urban Histories | Wally Smith, Dirk vom Lehn, Hannah Lewi, Katie Best and Dora Constantinidis |
| Traces—Olion: Creating a Bilingual ‘Subtlemob’ for National Museum Wales | Sara Huws, Alison John, Jenny Kidd |
| Investigating ‘Ordinary’ Landscapes: Using Visual Research Methods to Understand Heritage Digital Technologies and Sense of Place | Steven Cooke and Dora Constantinidis |
| Massive Digital Community Archives in Colombia: An International Partnership Towards Peace | Diego Merizalde and Jon Voss |
| Mapping an Archive of Emotions: Place, Memory and the Affective Histories of Perth’s Riverscape | Alicia Marchant |
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Afterword |
Andrea Witcomb |
#digitalization #experience #interaction #interactivity #museums #participation
Almost exactly 2 years ago Christian Meyer and colleagues organized a conference to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the publication of Harold Garfinkel’s Studies in Ethnomethodology. A link to information about the 2017 conference is HERE.
Human Studies has just been published Special Issue devoted to the Studies anniversary that can be accessed HERE and on the image below.
