Diabetes in athletes

This issue of eMedRef provides information to clinicians on the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and therapeutics of diabetes in athletes

Exercise-induced asthma

This issue of eMedRef provides information to clinicians on the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and therapeutics of exercise induced asthma

The ‘interrogative gaze’:Making video calling and messaging ‘accountable’

This paper identifies salient properties of how talk about video communication is organised interactionally, and how this interaction invokes an implied order of behaviour that is treated as ‘typical’ and ‘accountably representative’ of video communication. This invoked order will be called an interrogative gaze. This is an implied orientation to action, one that is used as a jointly managed interpretative schema that allows video communication to be talked about and understood as rationally, purposively and collaboratively undertaken in particular, ‘known in common’ ways. This applies irrespective of whether the actions in question are prospective (are about to happen) or have been undertaken in the past and are being accounted for in the present or are ‘generally the case’ - in current talk. The paper shows how this constitutive device also aids in sense making through such things as topic management in video-mediated interaction, and in elaborating the salience of the relationship between this and the patterned governance of social affairs - viz, mother-daughter, friend-friend - as normatively achieved outcomes. It will be shown how the interrogative gaze is variously appropriate and consequentially invoked not just in terms of what is done in a video call or making such calls accountable, but in helping articulate different orders of connection between persons, and how these orders have implications for sensible and appropriate behaviour in video calling and hence, for the type of persons who are involved. This, in turn, explains how a decision to avoid using video communication is made an accountably reasonable thing to do. The relevance of these findings for the sociology of everyday life and the philosophy of action are explored. © John Benjamins Publishing Company

Reflecting on Hybrid Events: Learning from a Year of Hybrid Experiences

The COVID-19 pandemic led to a sudden shift to virtual work and events, with the last two years enabling an appropriated and rather simulated togetherness - the hybrid mode. As we return to in-person events, it is important to reflect on not only what we learned about technologies and social justice, but about the types of events we desire, and how to re-design them accordingly. This SIG aims to reflect on hybrid events and their execution: scaling them across sectors, communities, and industries; considering trade-offs when choosing technologies; studying best practices and defining measures of "success"for hybrid events; and finally, identifying and charting the wider social, ethical, and legal implications of hybrid formats. This SIG will consolidate these topics by inviting participants to collaboratively reflect on previous hybrid experiences and what can be learned from them

Contesting language policy for asylum seekers in the Northern periphery: The story of Tailor F

This article is about navigating asylum, employment and language policy in a new country as an asylum seeker. Through the story of one individual, we show that profound inequalities are exacerbated when forced migrants are limited in their choice of language they might study or use. The individual is Tailor F, an Iraqi man seeking asylum, and the country is Finland, officially bilingual, with a majority language (Finnish) and a minority language (Swedish). Finland’s official bilingualism does not extend evenly to language education provided for asylum seekers, who are taught Finnish regardless of the region where they are placed. Upon arrival, Tailor F was housed in a reception centre for asylum seekers located in a Swedish-dominant rural area of the country. Through our linguistic ethnography we examine how he navigates multilingually in his early settlement, his current work and his online life. We relate his story to explicit and implicit official bilingualism in Finland and discuss his lived experiences in relation to the contexts of asylum policy and employment. Tailor F’s story shows how, through his practices, he has contested implicit language policy for asylum seekers in order to gain membership of the local Swedish-dominant community, achieve a sense of belonging, and potentially realise his aspirations for the future

Conversation analysis and online interaction

At the same time as Harvey Sacks was developing conversation analysis (CA), at the same institution a young graduate student attempted to type the word “login” into a computer; this message would then be sent to another computer in a different lab. Unfortunately the system crashed after the letters ‘L’ and ‘O’ were sent, and so the first word to be sent via the internet (or at least the pre-cursor to it) was ‘LO’ or perhaps, if we want to read it as such, ‘hello’. The fact that the first message sent via the ‘internet’ was, somewhat accidentally, a standard greeting is a foreshadowing of the fact that the internet has become a predominantly interactional medium. Online communication has grown exponentially since that first message. There are currently an estimated 269 billion e-mails, 55 billion Whatsapp messages, over 9.5 billion Instagram photos and videos, and around 500 million tweets sent per day. Online interaction is a worldwide phenomenon, with users of Chinese social media site, Weibo, sending over 100 million messages each day and about 38 billion messages sent every day on WeChat, the Chinese instant messaging service. As conversation analysts are interested in interaction as the primordial site of sociality, the internet is an enormous and ever-growing site of interaction, and as such should be a clear focus for exploring social life. This review provides an overview of what we already know from studies of CA and online interaction. It will argue that going forward there should be more impetus to explore this area of interaction, not only in its own right but also for what it tells us about human interaction more generally. This paper will show how CA can offer real insight into the organization of online interaction, particularly in relation to the potential affordances and constraints of the interaction