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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.

This study examines multiactivity in video-mediated business-to-business sales encounters. By drawing on multimodal conversation analysis, the paper examines how representatives of a legal service company navigate between talk-in-interaction with prospective clients and operating with a presentation on a shared screen where the sold service is demonstrated. The findings show how the technological affordances of MS Teams and PowerPoint are used to coordinate the presentation-orientation and prospect-orientation in a complex digital-social environment in order to display engagement in multiple technological and social actions simultaneously. The paper contributes, firstly, to the field of B2B sales interaction by showing how technology transforms the meetings into arenas of multiactivity, where the presenter has to navigate between their on-screen actions and their remote co-participants. Secondly, the paper contributes to the field of video-mediated interaction by illustrating how technological affordances are used to maintain both the progressivity and interactivity of the video-mediated meeting.

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).

"This volume discusses current and emerging trends in Ethnomethodological Conversation Analysis (EMCA). Focusing on step-by-step procedures of talk and interaction in real time, EMCA explores how people - through locally-produced, public, and common-sensical practices - accomplish activities together and thereby make sense and create social order as part of their everyday lives. The volume is divided into four parts, and it provides a timely methodological contribution by exploring new questions, settings, and recording technologies in EMCA for the study of social interaction. It addresses the methodical diversity in EMCA, including current practices as well as those testing its boundaries, and paves way for the development of future interaction research. At the same time, the book offers readers a glimpse into the ways in which human and non-human participants operate with each other and make sense of the world around them. The authors represent diverse fields of research, such as language studies, sociology, social psychology, human-computer interaction, and cognitive science. Ultimately, the book is a conversation opener that invites critical and constructive dialogue on how EMCA's methodology and toolbox could be developed for the purpose of acquiring richer perspectives on endogenous social action. This is key reading for researchers and advanced students on a range of courses on conversation analysis, language in interaction, discourse studies, multimodality and more"--