ERIC Number: EJ1182552
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2018
Pages: 5
Abstractor: ERIC
Reference Count: 5
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ISSN: EISSN-2576-2907
Narrating the Visual: Accounting for and Projecting Actions in Webinar Q&As
Yu, Di; Tadic, Nadja
Working Papers in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, v18 n1 p31-35 2018
Visual conduct, including the use of gaze to attend to bodily-visual cues and other semiotic resources in interaction, has long been a topic of interest in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis (EMCA). Past EMCA work has examined visual conduct in face-to-face interaction, shedding light on the use of gaze to secure recipiency, facilitate smooth turn-taking, and create and sustain the local interactional ecology (Goodwin, 2000; Nishizaka, 2000). In technology-mediated interaction, however, participants' lack of access to each other's visual conduct can create fractured ecologies and hinder communication (Heath & Luff, 1993; Luff, Heath, Kuzuoka, Hindmarsh, Yamazaki, & Oyama, 2003). In this paper, the authors explore how participants' asymmetrical visual access shapes one form of technology-mediated interaction: webinar talk. In particular, they examine how webinar moderators use what is visible on their computer screens to manage question-and-answer components during webinar events.
Descriptors: Web Based Instruction, Seminars, Cues, Nonverbal Communication, Discourse Analysis, Semiotics, Computer Mediated Communication
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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