ANALOGUE ANALYSIS Ethnography as Inventive Conversation

Conversation analysis as research methodology

Conversation Analysis

What kinds of social organizations are used as resources when people communicate through talk in interaction? It is this question that conversation analysis attempts to answer. Conversation analysis (CA) studies the methods participants orient to when they organize social action through talk. It investigates rules and practices from an interactional perspective and studies them by examining rec...

Computation as Conversation

The Amsterdam Science Museum NEMO organizes regular Kids’ Lectures on Science. 1 Imagine 60 children aged around 8 sitting in a small amphitheatre – with parents present in the wings, but not allowed to speak. Last February, it was my pleasure to give one on Logic. While preparing for the event, I got more and more worried. How does one talk logic to such an audience, without boring or upsettin...

Inventive Burning Ship

Michelitsch and Rossler in 1992 have applied seemingly small changes in complex analytic Mandelbrot set function and it makes a remarkable difference in the appearance of obtained fractal images. They named it burning ship as the image looks like a ship is going up in flame. The purpose of this paper is to explore the unidentified geometrical structure of various fractal images after applying i...

Games as Conversation

We present a metaphor through which to study games: games as conversation, which casts gameplay as a communicative exchange between player and game. We propose to view aspects of gameplay as speech acts, as defined by Austin and Searle, and we present several examples that illustrate the diverse locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary acts present in the design of digital games. Through ...