People, Technology, and Social Organization: Interactionist Studies of Everyday Life (Routledge 2023)

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction (Dirk vom Lehn, Will Gibson, and Natalia Ruiz-Junco)

PART 1 – POWER AND CONTROL

2. Social networks online: A twofold matter for abused women (Susanne Boethius and Malin Åkerström)

3. News, Sex, and the Rebel Forces of the Informal Internet (Michael Dellwing)

4. Terminal Violence: Online Interactions and Infra-Humanization (Simon Gottschalk)

5. Summing up and restarting. Interactive encouragement in online crime case discussions (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 (Chris Conner & 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 Calls during Medical Consultations: How Patients and Doctors Produce Slots to Answer a Phone (Aleksandr Shirokov, Iuliia Avgustis, Andrei Korbut)

10. Silence and co-presence in digital space. A study of question-answer-sequences in university teaching (Kenan Hochuli, and Johanna Jud)

11. Learning to Manage by Playing Video Games (Lydia Heiden, Heike Baldauf- Quilliatre, and Matthieu Quignard)

12. Problems with the Digital Public Encounter (Daniela Böhringer) 

13. The Embodied Organization of Mobile Object Recognition: Exploring how visually impaired people achieve a workable body-phone-object-space relation in situ when shopping (Brian L. Due, Louise Lüchow, and 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)