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This article studies how drivers offer space to other road users. The article builds on cases of space-offering collected from an audio-video corpus of real-life and real-time traffic recorded in Britain. It draws on Goffman's research on mobile encounters, Mondada's concept of "interactional space," and a methodology used to study the organization of multimodal and embodied social interaction. Space-offering is a practice through which road users negotiate their spatial and mobile copresence. They may communicate this by positioning themselves in space in different ways or by drawing on mutual gaze, gestures, the car's technology, or other multimodal resources. As road users offer space to one another, they create "space" as a members' phenomenon and construct the flow of traffic collaboratively and in situ.

Doing more than one thing at the same time – a phenomenon that is often called 'multitasking' – is characteristic to many situations in everyday and professional life. Although we all experience it, its real time features remain understudied. Multiactivity in Social Interaction: Beyond multitasking offers a fresh view to the phenomenon by presenting studies that explore how two or more activities can be related and made co-relevant as people interact with one another. The studies build on the basis that multiactivity is a social, verbal and embodied phenomenon. They investigate multiactivity by using video recordings of real-life interactions from a range of different contexts, such as medical settings, office workplaces and car driving. With the companion collection Interacting with Objects: Language, materiality, and social activity, the book advances understanding of the complex organisation and accomplishment of social interaction, especially the significance of embodiment, materiality, participation and temporality. A close appreciation of how people use language and interact for and during multiactivity will not only interest researchers in language and social interaction, communication studies and discourse analysis, but will be very valuable for scholars in cognitive sciences, psychology and sociology.

This chapter develops an ethnomethodologically-informed view regarding the sociality of objects, building upon Garfinkel's various descriptions of object constitution. We examine a particular case of diagnostic reasoning produced in the course of carrying out a surgical procedure at a teaching hospital. Our interest is in the methods employed by the surgeons in resolving certain incongruities in the case as it presents itself. Through an occasioned process of inquiry, the case at hand comes to be seen in a new light. This revised clinical picture is the oriented object under consideration here

Chapter 1. On the complexities of interaction: An introduction (Tiina Eilittä, Pentti Haddington, Antti Kamunen, Laura Kohonen-Aho, Iira Rautiainen and Anna Vatanen) -- Part I: Complexity that resides in multiactivity multisensoriality -- Chapter 2. Tasting vs. eating: The methodic and situated differentiation of embodied multisensorial activities in social interaction (Lorenza Mondada) -- Chapter 3. Metagaming and multiactivity: How board gamer players deal with progressivity (Emily Hofstetter and Jessica Robles) -- Chapter 4. Embodied noticings as repair initiations: On multiactivity in choir rehearsals (Anna Vatanen) -- Part II: Complexity that resides in asymmetries related to affordances, resources and roles -- Chapter 5. Intersubjective interaction during the word explanation activity in social virtual reality (Heidi Spets) -- Chapter 6. Building on linguistically exclusive talk: Access, participation and progressivity in a multinational military staff (Antti Kamunen and Pentti Haddington) -- Chapter 7. Nudging questions as devices for prompting courses of action and negotiating deontic (a)symmetry in UN Military Observer training (Iira Rautiainen, Pentti Haddington and Antti Kamunen) -- Part III: Complexity that resides in the coordination of participation frameworks -- Chapter 8. Playing together on a large screen: Spatiality, materiality, temporality and the complexity of interaction (Heike Baldauf-Quilliatre and Biagio Ursi) -- Chapter 9. Getting (others) involved with smartphones: Participation in showing sequences in multi-party settings (Iuliia Avgustis and Florence Oloff) -- Chapter 10. The primacy of affective engagement in simultaneously unfolding participation frameworks (Julia Katila, Yumei Gan, Sara Goico and Marjorie Goodwin) -- Part IV: Complexity that resides in the characteristics of interactional settings and environments -- Chapter 11. Ambulatory openings (Elliot M. Hoey) -- Chapter 12. Openings of interactions in immersive virtual reality: Identifying and recognising prospective co-participants (Pentti Haddington, Laura Kohonen-Aho, Sylvaine Tuncer and Heidi Spets) -- Chapter 13. Transitions between interactional spaces: Working towards shared understanding in a hybrid workshop setting (Laura Kohonen-Aho).

"Dieser Beitrag behandelt eine Studie, in der im Anschluss an Goffman untersucht wurde, wie Fußgänger/ innen mit ungewöhnlichen Ereignissen auf öffentlichen Plätzen umgehen. Im Zentrum stehen die Verhaltensweisen von Vorübergehenden während eines Smartmobs, bei dem eine Personengruppe in einer dicht bevölkerten Passage für vier Minuten 'eingefroren' war. Als Datenmaterial wurden Audio- und Videoaufzeichnungen genutzt. Im Verlauf der Analyse konnten spezifische Praktiken und Bewegungsmuster identifiziert werden, die die Vorübergehenden nutzten, um das Ereignis zu 'normalisieren'. Hierzu gehörten unterschiedliche Körperhaltungen und Laufwege, um sich durch die Gruppe hindurch oder um sie herum zu bewegen. Die Ergebnisse werden durch Abbildungen veranschaulicht." (Autorenreferat)

We are witnessing an emerging digital revolution. For the past 25–30 years, at an increasing pace, digital technologies—especially the internet, mobile phones and smartphones—have transformed the everyday lives of human beings. The pace of change will increase, and new digital technologies will become even more tightly entangled in human everyday lives. Artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), 6G wireless solutions, virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (XR), robots and various platforms for remote and hybrid communication will become embedded in our lives at home, work and school. Digitalisation has been identified as a megatrend, for example, by the OECD (2016; 2019). While digitalisation processes permeate all aspects of life, special attention has been paid to its impact on the ageing population, everyday communication practices, education and learning and working life. For example, it has been argued that digital solutions and technologies have the potential to improve quality of life, speed up processes and increase efficiency. At the same time, digitalisation is likely to bring with it unexpected trends and challenges. For example, AI and robots will doubtlessly speed up or take over many routine-based work tasks from humans, leading to the disappearance of certain occupations and the need for re-education. This, in turn, will lead to an increased demand for skills that are unique to humans and that technologies are not able to master. Thus, developing human competences in the emerging digital era will require not only the mastering of new technical skills, but also the advancement of interpersonal, emotional, literacy and problem-solving skills. It is important to identify and describe the digitalisation phenomena—pertaining to individuals and societies—and seek human-centric answers and solutions that advance the benefits of and mitigate the possible adverse effects of digitalisation (e.g. inequality, divisions, vulnerability and unemployment). This requires directing the focus on strengthening the human skills and competences that will be needed for a sustainable digital future. Digital technologies should be seen as possibilities, not as necessities. There is a need to call attention to the co-evolutionary processes between humans and emerging digital technologies—that is, the ways in which humans grow up with and live their lives alongside digital technologies. It is imperative to gain in-depth knowledge about the natural ways in which digital technologies are embedded in human everyday lives—for example, how people learn, interact and communicate in remote and hybrid settings or with artificial intelligence; how new digital technologies could be used to support continuous learning and understand learning processes better and how health and well-being can be promoted with the help of new digital solutions. Another significant consideration revolves around the co-creation of our digital futures. Important questions to be asked are as follows: Who are the ones to co-create digital solutions for the future? How can humans and human sciences better contribute to digitalisation and define how emerging technologies shape society and the future? Although academic and business actors have recently fostered inclusion and diversity in their co-creation processes, more must be done. The empowerment of ordinary people to start acting as active makers and shapers of our digital futures is required, as is giving voice to those who have traditionally been silenced or marginalised in the development of digital technology. In the emerging co-creation processes, emphasis should be placed on social sustainability and contextual sensitivity. Such processes are always value-laden and political and intimately intertwined with ethical issues. Constant and accelerating change characterises contemporary human systems, our everyday lives and the environment. Resilience thinking has become one of the major conceptual tools for understanding and dealing with change. It is a multi-scalar idea referring to the capacity of individuals and human systems to absorb disturbances and reorganise their functionality while undergoing a change. Based on the evolving new digital technologies, there is a pressing need to understand how these technologies could be utilised for human well-being, sustainable lifestyles and a better environment. This calls for analysing different scales and types of resilience in order to develop better technology-based solutions for human-centred development in the new digital era. This white paper is a collaborative effort by researchers from six faculties and groups working on questions related to digitalisation at the University of Oulu, Finland. We have identified questions and challenges related to the emerging digital era and suggest directions that will make possible a human-centric digital future and strengthen the competences of humans and humanity in this era.