(Re-)Opening an encounter in the virtual world of Second Life : on types of joint presence in avatar interaction
- This study explores how ‘gatherings’ turn into ‘encounters’ in a virtual world (VW) context. Most communication technologies enable only focused encounters between distributed participants, but in VWs both gatherings and encounters can occur. We present close sequential analysis of moments when after a silent gathering, interaction among participants in a VW is gradually resumed, and also investigate the social actions in the verbal (re-)opening turns. Our findings show that like in face-to-face situations, also in VWs participants often use different types of embodied resources to achieve the transition, rather than rely on verbal means only. However, the transition process in VWs has distinctive characteristics compared to the one in face-to-face situations. We discuss how participants in a VW use virtually embodied pre-beginnings to display what we call encounter-readiness, instead of displaying lack of presence by avatar stillness. The data comprise 40 episodes of video-recorded team interactions in a VW.
Author: | Laura Kohonen-Aho, Anna Vatanen |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-651587 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.21248/jfml.2021.30 |
ISSN: | 2569-6491 |
Parent Title (German): | Journal für Medienlinguistik : jfml = Journal for media linguistics |
Publisher: | Institut für Deutsche Sprache |
Place of publication: | Mannheim |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2021/10/27 |
Date of first Publication: | 2021/10/27 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2021/12/21 |
Tag: | (re-)openings; avatars; co-presence; conversation analysis; encounter; gathering; multimodal interaction; participation; transition; virtual embodiment; virtual worlds |
Volume: | 4 |
Issue: | 2 |
Page Number: | 38 |
First Page: | 14 |
Last Page: | 51 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 490320287 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 0 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke / 00 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme / 004 Datenverarbeitung; Informatik |
3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften | |
Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte: | Journal für Medienlinguistik : jfml = Journal for media linguistics |
: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-478105 |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0 |