Open AccessGaze and the Organization of Participation in Collective Visual Conduct
Author(s) -
Mardi Kidwell,
Edward Reynolds
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
social interaction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2446-3620
DOI - 10.7146/si.v5i2.119332
Subject(s) - gaze , conversation , psychology , conversation analysis , action (physics) , subject (documents) , cognitive psychology , focus (optics) , sort , social psychology , communication , computer science , physics , optics , quantum mechanics , library science , psychoanalysis , information retrieval
In this article, we demonstrate how participants make use of others’ gazing actions to monitor and engage events in their surroundings. Specifically, we focus on a tension between one sort of gazing action that participants freely join in, “noticing”, and another, “watching”, that is subject to constraints related to participant identities toward a collective and their corresponding rights of membership that include toward what and with whom they may gaze. Employing the method of conversation analysis, we provide a fine-grained examination of differences between the two gazing actions that include movements of the head, body, eyes, and feet, and highlight how these differences provide a resource for differentially orienting to the environment and joining in visually based activities with others.