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This book is about the everyday life of people with visual impairment or blindness. Using video ethnographic methods and ethnomethodological conversation analysis, it unpacks the practical accomplishments of everyday activities.
List of contents
1. The practical accomplishment of living with visual impairment: An EM/CA approach
2. The production and reception of assistance proposals between pedestrians and visually impaired persons during a course in locomotion and orientation 3. Shared intelligibility in interactions between visually impaired people and guide dogs 4. Guided by the blind: Discovering the competences of visually impaired co-authors in the practice of collaborative audio-description 5. Recipient design in a fractured perceptual field: Utilizing the affordances of an object 6. Mitigating responsibility: Attributing membership categories in the face of tech-related troubles 7. Echo and synchrony: Social attunements in visually impaired children's repetitive movements 8. From embodied scanning to tactile inspections: When visually impaired people exhibit object understanding 9. Assembling compositions: Visually impaired people and the experience of art in museums 10. The limits of vision 11. The significance of EM/CA studies in multimodal interaction involving visual impairment in the field of atypical interaction research
About the author
Brian L. Due is an associate professor in the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Due's research and teaching is within EMCA, mulitimodality, ethnographic methods, technology, socio-materiality, mobilities, perception and distributed agency, sensory impairment, and disabilities. He is the co-editor of the
Social Interaction: Video-Based Studies of Human Sociality journal. He has also published in journals such as
Journal of Pragmatics,
Space and Culture,
Mobilities,
Discourse Studies,
Human Studies and
Semiotica.
Summary
This book is about the everyday life of people with visual impairment or blindness. Using video ethnographic methods and ethnomethodological conversation analysis, it unpacks the practical accomplishments of everyday activities.
