Interaction Analysis

1 Unit · Graduate

This course is a deep introduction to analyzing recorded interactions. It seeks to hit practical, epistemological, and historical notes. People do the work of everyday life in interaction. Almost everything of consequence happens in interaction: family life, politics, teaching, learning, collaboration, friendship, love, conflict, and self and other identification. The course is organized around readings and doings. Over the quarter, we’ll dig into all the elements involved in producing this kind of work, from selecting sites, to making audio-video recordings, to selecting segments for close interaction analysis, and finally to how to assemble completed analyses into articles and chapters. Final projects are directed to students’ own research interests and data.