Open Access„oh isch FIND_s nich;“
Author(s) -
David Suderland
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal für medienlinguistik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2569-6491
DOI - 10.21248/jfml.2019.17
Subject(s) - conversation , computer science , field (mathematics) , face (sociological concept) , world wide web , conversation analysis , mobile apps , internet privacy , mobile device , human–computer interaction , psychology , multimedia , communication , sociology , social science , pure mathematics , mathematics
This paper adds to the growing field of conversation analytical research on smartphone-use in face-to-face interactions. Whenever smartphones are used in mobile-supported sharing activities – e.g. to show a picture to co-present others – the smartphone user needs to search for and find the "searchable object" in the World Wide Web, an App or on the device's local memory. Analyzing audio-recordings of naturally-occurring conversations, this paper identifies two types of practices of speech that explicitly orient to ongoing smartphone-supported searches: Collaborative search (cf. Brown/McGregor/McMillan 2015) and search-accompanying commentary by the smartphone-user. Both practices verbally provide for the accountability of the otherwise opaque device use. They differ in the way they produce opportunities for co-present others to substantively contribute to the progression of the search as well as the degree to which they produce the search as an interactionally public event.