Social Interaction.
Video-Based Studies of Human Sociality.
2018 VOL. 1, Issue 2
ISBN: 2446-3620
DOI: 10.7146/si.v1i2.110477
Editorial
Welcome to the 2nd issue of Social Interaction. Video-Based Studies of Human Sociality.
Since the publication of the inaugural issue we have received a number of reactions and comments from colleagues in our field. Most of them have been positive, and it seems that the journal is already on the radar as a site for publishing research on social interaction. However, at the end of the day the journal is what it publishes, and that obviously means that submissions are paramount to creating the journal’s profile. It can hardly be a surprise that the journal is kick-started by, to a large degree, on our own network and connections. Undoubtedly, this will be reflected in the journal for some time, but we hope that it will increasingly be complemented by spontaneous/uninvited submission, thus leading to more varied publications in terms of analytic foci, settings and author composition.
From the beginning, the journal has emphasized the possibility to embed video clips in publications in order to maintain the linkage between recording, transcription and analysis. Most often, this disappears when papers are published traditionally. Currently, such video clips for this publication are stored on our private YouTube channel. We are aware that this raises a number of concerns for both current and future contributors. At the moment, we are setting up of a university-based server for hosting the files. Regardless of the server, however, video clips are still ‘out there’ and do not require a login to watch them as part of the publication. In these times where ethics and data protection are becoming more and more highlighted in public life in general and academia in particular, making recordings available is highly sensitive. We stress that including video clips is not obligatory and we are fully aware that video clips from a range of settings will never be included. Authors themselves are responsible for treating video clips in accordance with legal and ethical rights, and, when relevant, for editing and/or anonymizing them prior to publication. We refer to the site Mobile Lab Tutorials which contains a range of tutorials for how to edit and anonymize audio and video recordings using various types of software.
This issue features four articles. Due & Trærup describe how glasses are passed and received between opticians and customers. Marstrand & Svennevig describe the role of touch between caregivers and a person with Parkinson’s disease. Together these articles add to the growing amount of research that looks at haptic aspects of/in interaction. Liberman’s invited contribution discusses objectivation practices by drawing on video recordings from coffee tasting, Tibetan debates and board games. Finally, we are proud to be able to publish a video recording of the late Charles Goodwin’s keynote presentation from the Copenhagen Multimodality Day 2017. In addition to the video recording itself, Philipsen has kindly transcribed the presentation. We hope that readers will use the recording and accompanying transcription as a lived and embodied example of a great scholar in action.
We hope you will enjoy this and future issues on human sociality, and we are pleased to invite new submissions for upcoming issues.
The editors
Kristian Mortensen, PhD, associate professor, University of Southern Denmark
Brian Due, PhD, associate professor, University of Copenhagen