Democracy under threat via the "empirically observable breakdown in the interactional practices that constitute democratic accountability between media and state power." Wayne Martin Mellinger on Steve Clayman's decades of #EMCA research 👇 doingmodernity.blogspot.com/2025/11/demo...

Democracy Under Threat: Steven Clayman's Interactional Analysis and the Crisis We Can No Longer Ignore"

Democracy Under Threat: Steven Clayman’s Interactional Analysis and the Crisis We Can No Longer Ignore Wayne Martin Mellinger, Ph.D. Abstr...

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When we ask for something big—time, effort, money—do we hedge against rejection or assume success? With @gio-rossi.bsky.social & Tanya Stivers, we find that people are incurably optimistic, even though big requests often meet resistance. Published open access in @socquarterly.bsky.social. #EMCA

Incurable Optimism about Getting What We Want: Anticipating Success in Everyday Requests

When asking for something significant from another person, speakers not only set the tilt of the question toward the affirmative or negative but also display an optimistic or pessimistic stance tow...

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Recruiting PhD students! Join my new lab @Dartmouth Psychology! Looking for students who want to decode the science of conversation together. We'll study conversational dynamics, impression formation, and face-to-face interaction. Feel free to reach out with questions! Due Dec 1 bit.ly/4mSutgM

🚨 Now available in print worldwide 🌍 If access is a challenge, don't hesitate to reach out 💫 doi.org/10.1093/oso/...

Systems of Social Action: The Case of Requesting in Italian

Abstract. This book is about social action as it is carried out in everyday life. To some readers, the phrase social action may evoke the idea of people ta

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Giovanni Rossi@gio-rossi.bsky.social · last yr.

1/ 📘 Book alert! 🚨 After a long gestation, extensive rewriting, a complex production process, and life getting in the way, it’s finally out* ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/oso/...

🚨 new #emca paper klaxon 🚨 on-duty police regularly have to deal with recording bystanders. if they decide to open interaction, how do they do so? Uwe and I investigate 🕵🏻 in Language in Society 🔓 OA: www.cambridge.org/core/service...

Very excited to announce this faculty search at Rutgers! Looking for a wonderful new colleague to join us in Communication #EMCA #LSI @ica-lsi.bsky.social @lansi2024.bsky.social jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/258...

I have one more presentation during #ASA2025! On Monday at 2pm come listen to me talk about how conflict between Christian Right activists and Southern Baptist missionary executives led to bureaucratic centralization that no one wanted: tinyurl.com/29czdf2q

Calling all early birds! Check out this great session at the Association for the Sociology of Religion on Sunday at 8:30. I'll be presenting a piece of my book project on covert evangelism and international missions. Hope to see you there!

If you're going to be in Chicago tomorrow (August 6) come to the Voco hotel at 11am to catch my presentation, "Typical Expectations and the Moral Order: Talcott Parsons, Harold Garfinkel, and the Sticky Problem of Meaning" at the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction @sijournal.bsky.social!

1/ 📘 Book alert! 🚨 After a long gestation, extensive rewriting, a complex production process, and life getting in the way, it’s finally out* ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/oso/...

Systems of Social Action: The Case of Requesting in Italian

Abstract. This book is about social action as it is carried out in everyday life. To some readers, the phrase social action may evoke the idea of people ta

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