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View article: Rethinking Face‐to‐Face Interaction: Lessons from Studies of “Autistic Sociality”
Rethinking Face‐to‐Face Interaction: Lessons from Studies of “Autistic Sociality” Open
Face‐to‐face interaction is a foundational concept in microsociology. This article surveys the social experiences of autistic people, who are commonly known for having a strained relationship with interactions face to face. By interpretive…
View article: Five Misconceptions About Interview Modes or: How to Improve Our Thinking About Face-to-Face Versus Remote Interviewing
Five Misconceptions About Interview Modes or: How to Improve Our Thinking About Face-to-Face Versus Remote Interviewing Open
New technology brings new methodological opportunities. While long limited to face-to-face interviewing, today’s interview researchers can choose from a plethora of options, including email, instant messaging, telephone, and video intervie…
View article: The future of interaction rituals: an interview with Randall Collins
The future of interaction rituals: an interview with Randall Collins Open
This interview with Randall Collins explores the role of interaction rituals (IR) in our increasingly digital world. For Collins, IR is a micro-sociological mechanism that provides both the glue that holds social groups together and the en…
View article: Editorial: Virtual presence: loneliness, technology and the production of human (dis)connectedness
Editorial: Virtual presence: loneliness, technology and the production of human (dis)connectedness Open
Keywords: loneliness, social isolation, technology—assistive/supportive, technology—ICT, telepresence, digital health
View article: Intervjuer på Teams og telefon: Hva slags data gir medierte intervjuer?
Intervjuer på Teams og telefon: Hva slags data gir medierte intervjuer? Open
In discussions of qualitative interviewing, face-to-face interviews are often understood as the “gold standard” and other interview forms are evaluated against this. Researchers who use data from telephone and video interviews must routine…
View article: The social robot? Analyzing whether and how the telepresence robot AV1 affords socialization
The social robot? Analyzing whether and how the telepresence robot AV1 affords socialization Open
Telepresence robots are increasingly used in schools as a way of including students who are unable to be physically present in the classroom with other students. The use of such robots is intended not just to help students follow their edu…
View article: Multi-site domestication: taming technologies across multiple institutional settings
Multi-site domestication: taming technologies across multiple institutional settings Open
This article advances domestication theory by developing the concept of multi-site domestication. Whereas domestication theory traditionally focuses on the 'taming' of technologies at a single site (most often, the household), the concept …
View article: Educational purity and technological danger: understanding scepticism towards the use of telepresence robots in school
Educational purity and technological danger: understanding scepticism towards the use of telepresence robots in school Open
This article contributes to the sociology of education and technology by providing a cultural analysis of scepticism towards new technologies in school, using reactions to the telepresence robot 'AV1' as its case. AV1 is designed to connec…
View article: Anticipated affordances: Understanding early reactions to new technologies
Anticipated affordances: Understanding early reactions to new technologies Open
This article proposes the concept of anticipated affordances as an analytical supplement to affordance theory. ‘Anticipated affordances’ refers to how actors anticipate or speculate on a technology’s affordances before they have any direct…
View article: Interaction rituals and technology: A review essay
Interaction rituals and technology: A review essay Open
This article aims to advance research on interaction rituals (IR) and technology. Its starting point is interaction ritual theory, a key micro-sociological approach that postulates IRs as the micro-interactional glue that holds social life…
View article: Diagnosing by anticipation: Coordinating patient trajectories within and across social systems
Diagnosing by anticipation: Coordinating patient trajectories within and across social systems Open
Anticipation is a fundamental aspect of social life and, following Weber, the hallmark of social action—it means trying to take others’ responses to our actions into account when acting. In this article, we propose and argue the relevance …
View article: Student at a distance: exploring the potential and prerequisites of using telepresence robots in schools
Student at a distance: exploring the potential and prerequisites of using telepresence robots in schools Open
'Homebound' children are unable to attend school for illness-related reasons. To lessen their predicament, schools have begun experimenting with 'telepresence robots' that can enable remote participation. While promising, we know little ab…
View article: Protocol for ‘virtual presence’: a qualitative study of the cultural dialectic between loneliness and technology
Protocol for ‘virtual presence’: a qualitative study of the cultural dialectic between loneliness and technology Open
Introduction Most research on loneliness comes from the health sciences, statistically seeking to measure the health-related effects of feeling alone or isolated. There is a need to expand on this understanding and explore loneliness as a …
View article: Experience, stereotypes and discrimination. Employers’ reflections on their hiring behavior
Experience, stereotypes and discrimination. Employers’ reflections on their hiring behavior Open
This article explores the relationship between labor market discrimination, stereotypes and employers’ experiences with immigrant workers. Based on interviews with 58 employers, recruited as part of three randomized field experiments on et…
View article: Do nurses rate diseases according to prestige? A survey study
Do nurses rate diseases according to prestige? A survey study Open
Aims To see whether nurses rate diseases according to prestige and, if so, how their ratings compare to the disease prestige hierarchy previously uncovered among physicians. Design Cross‐sectional survey. Methods In 2014, 122 nurses in a c…
View article: Negotiated Discretion: Redressing the Neglect of Negotiation in “Street‐Level Bureaucracy”
Negotiated Discretion: Redressing the Neglect of Negotiation in “Street‐Level Bureaucracy” Open
This article proposes an interactionist update of “street‐level bureaucracy,” one of the most influential approaches for studying how public policy is translated into street‐level practice. While the street‐level approach assumes that bure…
View article: The commensuration of pain: How nurses transform subjective experience into objective numbers
The commensuration of pain: How nurses transform subjective experience into objective numbers Open
Commensuration-the transformation of different qualities into a common metric-has recently received increased scholarly attention. While mostly studied at the meso- or macroscale, this article extends the focus to microscale commensuration…
View article: Between standardisation and discretion: the priority setting of triage nurses
Between standardisation and discretion: the priority setting of triage nurses Open
This dissertation explores the relationship between standardisation and discretion in professional work at street level, using the priority setting of triage nurses as its case. Triage nurses are employed at the frontline of emergency medi…
View article: Beyond guidelines: discretionary practice in face‐to‐face triage nursing
Beyond guidelines: discretionary practice in face‐to‐face triage nursing Open
This article draws on ethnographic data from a Norwegian emergency primary care clinic ( EPCC ) to explore nurses’ discretionary application of guidelines. Specifically, it analyses nurses’ discretionary use of the Manchester Triage System…
View article: How Triage Nurses Use Discretion: a Literature Review
How Triage Nurses Use Discretion: a Literature Review Open
Discretion is quintessential for professional work. This review aims to understand how nurses use discretion when they perform urgency assessments in emergency departments with formalised triage systems—systems that are intended to reduce …