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    Collaboration and interactions in office work : the material, verbal and embodied emergence of organisations

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    La thĂšse donne Ă  voir et Ă  comprendre en quoi consistent les organisations et l’expĂ©rience du travail dans les organisations Ă  partir de l’analyse d’interactions verbales, corporelles et matĂ©rielles filmĂ©es dans des bureaux. DĂ©veloppant une approche praxĂ©ologique originale du cĂŽtĂ© de la recherche sur les organisations, nous contribuons en outre aux travaux sur les interactions en interrogeant la prĂ©sence de l’institution dans des formats interactionnels, dans une dĂ©marche comparative que permet le corpus. L’exposition de notre ancrage thĂ©orique au croisement de ces courants nous conduit Ă  une question Ă©pistĂ©mologique : est-il possible d’extraire des interactions en coprĂ©sence le Quoi du travail d’organisation, tel que l’ethnomĂ©thodologie a pu le formuler pour le travail professionnel ? Les rĂ©sultats empiriques de l’enquĂȘte sont ensuite prĂ©sentĂ©s dans cinq chapitres, chacun consacrĂ© Ă  un phĂ©nomĂšne ou moment de la vie dans les bureaux : les ouvertures des visites, les clĂŽtures des visites, les appels tĂ©lĂ©phoniques pendant une interaction en coprĂ©sence, la mobilisation dans l’interaction du dispositif vidĂ©o, et enfin les rĂ©ajustements du cadre de participation. La comparaison des diffĂ©rents environnements de travail, des rĂ©gularitĂ©s au sein de chacun et entre eux, permet certaines dĂ©couvertes.The thesis endeavours to show and understand the very stuff of organisations and the experience of work in organisations, starting from the analysis of verbal, embodied and material interactions filmed in offices. Developing a praxeological, original approach within theories of organisation, we also aim to contribute to research on interactions by putting to question the relevance of institution within interactional patterns, through the comparative approach enabled by our corpus. A theoretical anchorage at the crossroads of these currents being set, we are lead to an epistemological question: is it possible to extract out of copresent interactions the What of organizing work, the way ethnomethodology did with studies of work? We present in the next five chapters our empirical results, each concerning one phenomenon or sequence of work in offices: opening a visit, closing a visit, answering an incoming phonecall during a copresent interaction, formulating the video cameras in interaction, and finally reajusting participation frame. Comparison of various work settings, of regularities between and within them, leads to some discoveries

    Collaborer et intéragir dans les bureaux : l'émergence matérielle, verbale et incarnée de l'organisation

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    The thesis endeavours to show and understand the very stuff of organisations and the experience of work in organisations, starting from the analysis of verbal, embodied and material interactions filmed in offices. Developing a praxeological, original approach within theories of organisation, we also aim to contribute to research on interactions by putting to question the relevance of institution within interactional patterns, through the comparative approach enabled by our corpus. A theoretical anchorage at the crossroads of these currents being set, we are lead to an epistemological question: is it possible to extract out of copresent interactions the What of organizing work, the way ethnomethodology did with studies of work? We present in the next five chapters our empirical results, each concerning one phenomenon or sequence of work in offices: opening a visit, closing a visit, answering an incoming phonecall during a copresent interaction, formulating the video cameras in interaction, and finally reajusting participation frame. Comparison of various work settings, of regularities between and within them, leads to some discoveries.La thĂšse donne Ă  voir et Ă  comprendre en quoi consistent les organisations et l’expĂ©rience du travail dans les organisations Ă  partir de l’analyse d’interactions verbales, corporelles et matĂ©rielles filmĂ©es dans des bureaux. DĂ©veloppant une approche praxĂ©ologique originale du cĂŽtĂ© de la recherche sur les organisations, nous contribuons en outre aux travaux sur les interactions en interrogeant la prĂ©sence de l’institution dans des formats interactionnels, dans une dĂ©marche comparative que permet le corpus. L’exposition de notre ancrage thĂ©orique au croisement de ces courants nous conduit Ă  une question Ă©pistĂ©mologique : est-il possible d’extraire des interactions en coprĂ©sence le Quoi du travail d’organisation, tel que l’ethnomĂ©thodologie a pu le formuler pour le travail professionnel ? Les rĂ©sultats empiriques de l’enquĂȘte sont ensuite prĂ©sentĂ©s dans cinq chapitres, chacun consacrĂ© Ă  un phĂ©nomĂšne ou moment de la vie dans les bureaux : les ouvertures des visites, les clĂŽtures des visites, les appels tĂ©lĂ©phoniques pendant une interaction en coprĂ©sence, la mobilisation dans l’interaction du dispositif vidĂ©o, et enfin les rĂ©ajustements du cadre de participation. La comparaison des diffĂ©rents environnements de travail, des rĂ©gularitĂ©s au sein de chacun et entre eux, permet certaines dĂ©couvertes

    The effects of video recording on office workers' conduct, and the validity of video data for the study of naturally-occurring interactions

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    Abstract This article starts from the observation that social scientists using video to study naturally-occurring interactions are often questioned about the reliability of their data, by wider audiences, but also by scholars who raised concerns early on about how the recording device would modify the participants’ conduct. The study uses 47 video extracts in which workers filmed in their offices orient to the recording, analyzed from a conversation analysis perspective. I show that these sequences occur in two distinct sequential environments, corresponding to distinct sets of accomplishments. During the openings of encounters participants often discuss the meaning and features of the recording, and close the topic as they reach a form of agreement. I outline a pattern for such sequences. During the course of an encounter, they often use the recording not only as a resource to produce laughter in general, but also to achieve locally and sequentially relevant actions, such as closing a complaint or assessing an activity. By exposing the methods whereby participants “domesticate” the recording, I argue that while the recording is a specific circumstance that participants are aware of, and which requires some negotiations, which in turn may change their interactions, it nonetheless provides rich analytic material. The implications of the study are ethical, since they display participants’ expectations regarding informed consent, and how they continuously achieve it in their interactions as an iterative process; they are also analytical, since I unpack a diversity of ways participants use the camera as a particular interactional resource to achieve commonplace interactional projects at work

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    Suspendre une activitĂ©, prendre un appel : la multi-activitĂ© comme accomplissement dans l’interaction

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    Quoiqu’on puisse la considĂ©rer comme omniprĂ©sente dans le mode de vie contemporain, et comme une prĂ©occupation sociĂ©tale de plus en plus explicite, la multi-activitĂ© demeure une notion remarquablement Ă©vasive. Une approche par la temporalitĂ© permet de dĂ©cliner le phĂ©nomĂšne sous plusieurs formes : d’un cĂŽtĂ©, le multitĂąche consĂ©cutif, qui consiste Ă  s’engager dans une activitĂ©, puis dans une autre, puis Ă  reprendre l’activitĂ© initiale et ainsi de suite ; d’un autre cĂŽtĂ©, le multitĂąche simultanĂ©..

    Object transfers:an embodied resource to progress joint activities and build relative agency

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    Abstract This article builds on ethnomethodological, conversation analytic research on object transfers: how participants hand over objects to one another. By analyzing video recordings of mundane (cars) and institutional interactions (laboratories), we focus on situations where an object is central to and talked about in the joint course of action. We focus on different organizations of object transfer and show that one embodied move is decisive, either a sequentially implicative ‘give’ or an arm extension designed as a stand-alone ‘take’. We examine the interrelationship between the organization of the object transfer and the broader course of action (e.g. request or offer sequence), which is either overlapping or intersecting. We demonstrate that by making the decisive move, either the participant initially holding the object or her recipient critically influences the progression and trajectory of the activity, and displays agency
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