CA AND VIDEO‑MEDIATED COMMUNICATION

This chapter reviews current research on video-mediated interaction and its interaction order—the normative orientations that characterize and produce a proper involvement in video-mediated communication (VMC). Within this Goffmanian framework, the chapter discusses the affordances of VMC settings, viewed as “fractured ecologies”, and focuses particularly on evidential boundaries, such as connection events and video frame borders. It treats the members’ orientation toward the production of “Talking Heads” as the default configuration for proper involvement in VMC. After reviewing research on the particulars of openings and closings in VMC, it introduces current discussions of the articulation of visual practices and talk-in-interaction in VMC, especially with regard to noticing and showing sequences.