Recognizing mutual ‘proximity’ at a distance: Weaving together mobility, sociality and technology  

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Licoppe, Christian

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Pragmatics: An Interdiciplinary Journal of Language Studies vol. 41 no. 10 (Oct. 2009), page 1924–1937.
Topik: Mobility; Proximity; Location awareness; Mobile phone
Fulltext: Licoppe_Christian.pdf (645.1KB)

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The aim of this paper is to analyse the way social gatherings are collaboratively accomplished in two highly different settings, routine mobile phone conversations, and a location-aware mobile game, through a single, sequentially ordered interactional device based on participants producing mutually ratified ‘co-proximity events’. It starts from their doing ‘co-localization work’, that is, collaboratively establishing their locations, which provides them with opportunities to assess their mutual locations as some form of proximity. I show how such ‘co-proximity events’ achieved within talk-in-interaction enact the relevance of a future face-to-face encounter, and project an invitation to meet as a relevant ‘next’ in the interactional sequence. In the location-aware system, the game infrastructure and interfaces assume agency in the discovery of co-proximity, by providing players with opportunities to see the presence of their icons on a single map. I show how players treat such a display as a form of mediated co-proximity, with the same interactional and sequential consequences as in mobile phone conversations. The sequence-sensitive interactional device I identify here allows the collaborative production of social encounters. It weaves mobility and sociality, proximity and hospitality, and can be argued to possess a wider anthropological significance.

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