
topics
On the basis of video-recordings of unacquainted people meeting in public spaces, the project addresses a diversity of topics, articulating them in original ways:
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the organisation of openings of social interactions and the multimodal practices they rely on;
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the mutual identification, recognition, categorisation of the participants in social interaction as well as the emergent accountability of actions;
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the organisation of co-presence, unfocused and focused encounters, embodied trajectories in space and spatial arrangements of the participants;
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language choice, code-switching, language negotiation and language adjustments in social interaction.
Methodological topics are also addressed and reflected, such as:
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planning the naturalistic video-documentation of unforeseeable events
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video-recording in outdoor settings where individuals are “on the move” combining multiple video and audio sources
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video-recording complex articulated spaces in which coincidental trajectories might happen
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organising informed consent for unplanned interactions
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transcribing mobile actions in complex spaces
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transcribing subtle linguistic variations, negotiations and mutual adjustments in interaction