C Zucchermaglio
Biographic Data
| ID | 18593 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Zucchermaglio |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Zucchermaglio |
| SIGNATURE | ZUCCHERMAGLIO C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sapienza University of Rome |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8936-0296 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Family partnering in practice: The role of caregivers’ epistemological theories in their interaction with families
Research on alternative care – combined with evidence from family therapy and perspectives from children’s rights debates – robustly demonstrates that a crucial factor influencing the success of alternative care projects is family partnering, that is, maintaining relational continuity with birth families and participating with them, whenever it is judicially approved. However, there is a limited understanding of how this unfolds in practice. To a…
Companions in immigrant oncology visits: Uncovering social dynamics through the lens of Goffman's footing and Conversation Analysis
This paper examines the role of companions in healthcare encounters, focusing on a previously unexamined context: the oncology visit with immigrant patients. By employing a methodological approach that combines elements of Goffman's footing and Conversation Analysis, this study discerns the social dynamics and communicative patterns among doctors, patients, and companions. Our focus on the companion yields an intricate picture of their multifacet…
Working With Traumatised Children During Traumatic Times: Residential Child Care Educators' Compassion Fatigue and Work Engagement
Drawing from an Italian study conducted in residential care for children and guided by the postulates of the Job Demands and Resources Model, our aims are to investigate residential childcare educators' levels of compassion fatigue and work engagement, and to focus on the individual, work and organisational conditions associated. The survey involved 215 educators who were on duty during the summer of 2023. Data analysis employed descriptive stati…
Living in Italian residential care under Covid-19 restrictions. A survey on adolescents’ perspectives over their psychosocial wellbeing
COVID-19 lockdown has been worldwide considered one of the major collective traumatic experiences for everyone, vulnerable adolescents included. Surprisingly, however, research on the experiences of adolescent living in residential care (RC) – considered it to be particularly exposed to traumas and developmental challenges – has been underdeveloped in the pandemic scenario. Bridging this gap and drawing on a national survey with Italian adolescen…
Two Sources of Miscommunication in Oncology Consultations: An Observational Study Using Conversation Analysis
This article investigates miscommunication in sequences of talk where an oncologist asks about patients’ co-morbidities, that is, their other illnesses beyond cancer. Using conversation analysis, we examine ways in which the participants identify and manage two sources of miscommunication: a divergence in the doctor’s and the patient’s understandings about the scope of the question; and a divergence in the doctor’s and the patient’s (and sometime…
Children’s participation and agency in Italian residential care for children: Adult-child interactions at dinnertime
This paper analyzes the impact of adults’ interactive moves and strategies on children’s participation and agency at dinnertime in two Italian residential care facilities, one of the most widely used alternative care life-context for children and youth coming from vulnerable families. Participants are 14 children and 11 educators living in two residential care facilities in Rome (Italy). Adopting an interactional and multimodal analytic approach,…
Orchestrating children’s action: An in-depth multimodal analysis of child-educator interactions in one Italian early childhood education setting
Early childhood educational centers (ECEC) are contexts where young children make their first contact with specific, culturally determined rules, practices, and values. Only a few studies have analyzed in-depth the practices through which the educators direct the children’s action and attention while they are performing routine educational activities. By means of detailed transcription of educators-children conversations and Conversation Analytic…
We will take care of you: Identity categorisation markers in intercultural medical encounters
Ethnomethodology research has systematically investigated discursive practices of categorisation, looking at the various ways by which social actors ascribe both themselves and others to identity categories to accomplish various kinds of social actions. Drawing on a data corpus of oncological visits collected in an Italian hospital, involving both native and non-native patients, the present work analyses how participants in these intercultural me…
Presenting treatment options in breast cancer consultations: Advice and consent in Italian medical care
Religiosity as a Cultural Resource for Arab-Palestinian Women's Coping with Cancer
Drawing on the discourse analysis of 36 in-depth interviews, this qualitative study explores how Arab-Palestinian women cope with breast cancer and ascribe meaning to their illness within the local religious and traditional cultural context. In particular, the study shows that religious beliefs and practices help Arab-Palestinian women to handle emotional and psychological difficulties while perpetuating traditional cultural norms of concealment.…
Structuring times and activities in the oncology visit
Social Interactions and Cultural Repertoires as Resources for Coping With Breast Cancer
The article aims to better understand the role of cultural and social resources for coping with cancer as a disruptive experience. Fourteen women who had recently received a diagnosis of breast cancer and started a treatment in an Italian hospital have been interviewed individually to elicit narratives regarding the interactions with the other patients. The analysis focused on the role played by social interactions and cultural repertoires as dev…
Managing risk and patient involvement in choosing treatment for cancer: An Analysis of Two Communication Practices
Drawing on conversation analyses of oncology consultations collected in Italy, the article examines the communication practices used to recommend treatments. We found that the oncologist formulates the treatment recommendation (TR) for high-risk patients in terms of a 'mandatory' choice and for low-risk patients as an 'optional' type of decision. In the first case the doctor presses to reach a decision during the visit while in the second case le…
Diagnostic Decision Making in Oncology: Creating Shared Knowledge and Managing Complexity
Drawing upon the concept of practice, the article explores diagnostic decision making in oncology through the analysis of informal conversations between doctors in an Italian hospital. The analysis shows that doctors rely on three collaborative practices: (a) joint interpretation, (b) intersubjective generation and validation of hypotheses, and (c) postponing the diagnostic decision. Through such practices, doctors jointly handle tough issues suc…
“It Seems That Things Take Care of Themselves”: Routines in Busy Family Lives
In this study we analyze how 15 working mothers talk about the ways in which routines contribute to sustaining the accomplishment of their domestic work. In particular, we analyze the routines’ function of coordinating multiple lines of activity, their property of anticipating the unexpected and incorporating alternative responses, and their character of being a local resource for practical thinking and action. We then discuss the role that moral…
Planning and assessing performance through narratives in soccer team meetings
Soccer teams, as many other sport teams, need, among other activities, to plan their behaviours for future matches and to reflect upon their past performances on the pitch. Within a discursive perspective, we aim to analyse how narratives contribute to shape these team activities during technical meetings. The analyses are based on naturally occurring interactions of an Italian soccer team, recorded during three technical meetings (after a victor…
Time, Narratives and Participation Frameworks in Software Troubleshooting
Narratives in the workplace: Facts, fictions, and canonicity
Drawing on a set of workplace interaction corpora, both dyadic and multiparty, we present three narrative forms departing from the established notion of storytelling. These have been called Rewindings, collaborative reconstructions of yet-unknown past events; Fictions, the creation of imaginary scenes; and Templates, condensed versions of experience providing information on unexpected outcomes or controversial occurrences. Without denying specifi…
Collaboration in web design: Sharing knowledge, pursuing usability
Embodiment at the Interface: Materialization Practices in Web Design
In this article, we describe some of the results of a research project that studied Web design practices in an Internet company. In this work setting, technology acts as both the instrument of mediation, which supports the shared realization of work practices, and as the product of that work activity. For this reason, of particular importance are the social practices by which the designers (a) incrementally and jointly imagine the portal that the…
My selves and I: Identity Markers in Work Meeting Talk
The Social Construction of Work Times: Negotiated Time and Expected Time
This article deals with the negotiation of time boundaries in a project group. The study grew up from a theoretical approach grounded in cultural psychology, where time is considered as a cultural artifact and as a dimension of the interactive environment that could be co-constructed by all participants through discourse. The relevance of the negotiation of the temporal dimension in work settings is still unexplored. Both qualitative and quantita…
The Social Construction of Work Times: Negotiated Time and Expected Time
This article deals with the negotiation of time boundaries in a project group. The study grew up from a theoretical approach grounded in cultural psychology, where time is considered as a cultural artifact and as a dimension of the interactive environment that could be co-constructed by all participants through discourse. The relevance of the negotiation of the temporal dimension in work settings is still unexplored. Both qualitative and quantita…
My selves and I: Identity Markers in Work Meeting Talk
Structuring times and activities in the oncology visit
Embodiment at the Interface: Materialization Practices in Web Design
In this article, we describe some of the results of a research project that studied Web design practices in an Internet company. In this work setting, technology acts as both the instrument of mediation, which supports the shared realization of work practices, and as the product of that work activity. For this reason, of particular importance are the social practices by which the designers (a) incrementally and jointly imagine the portal that the…
Managing risk and patient involvement in choosing treatment for cancer: An Analysis of Two Communication Practices
Drawing on conversation analyses of oncology consultations collected in Italy, the article examines the communication practices used to recommend treatments. We found that the oncologist formulates the treatment recommendation (TR) for high-risk patients in terms of a 'mandatory' choice and for low-risk patients as an 'optional' type of decision. In the first case the doctor presses to reach a decision during the visit while in the second case le…
Collaboration in web design: Sharing knowledge, pursuing usability
Social Interactions and Cultural Repertoires as Resources for Coping With Breast Cancer
The article aims to better understand the role of cultural and social resources for coping with cancer as a disruptive experience. Fourteen women who had recently received a diagnosis of breast cancer and started a treatment in an Italian hospital have been interviewed individually to elicit narratives regarding the interactions with the other patients. The analysis focused on the role played by social interactions and cultural repertoires as dev…
We will take care of you: Identity categorisation markers in intercultural medical encounters
Ethnomethodology research has systematically investigated discursive practices of categorisation, looking at the various ways by which social actors ascribe both themselves and others to identity categories to accomplish various kinds of social actions. Drawing on a data corpus of oncological visits collected in an Italian hospital, involving both native and non-native patients, the present work analyses how participants in these intercultural me…
Presenting treatment options in breast cancer consultations: Advice and consent in Italian medical care
Religiosity as a Cultural Resource for Arab-Palestinian Women's Coping with Cancer
Drawing on the discourse analysis of 36 in-depth interviews, this qualitative study explores how Arab-Palestinian women cope with breast cancer and ascribe meaning to their illness within the local religious and traditional cultural context. In particular, the study shows that religious beliefs and practices help Arab-Palestinian women to handle emotional and psychological difficulties while perpetuating traditional cultural norms of concealment.…
The Social Construction of Work Times: Negotiated Time and Expected Time
This article deals with the negotiation of time boundaries in a project group. The study grew up from a theoretical approach grounded in cultural psychology, where time is considered as a cultural artifact and as a dimension of the interactive environment that could be co-constructed by all participants through discourse. The relevance of the negotiation of the temporal dimension in work settings is still unexplored. Both qualitative and quantita…
My selves and I: Identity Markers in Work Meeting Talk
Embodiment at the Interface: Materialization Practices in Web Design
In this article, we describe some of the results of a research project that studied Web design practices in an Internet company. In this work setting, technology acts as both the instrument of mediation, which supports the shared realization of work practices, and as the product of that work activity. For this reason, of particular importance are the social practices by which the designers (a) incrementally and jointly imagine the portal that the…
Narratives in the workplace: Facts, fictions, and canonicity
Drawing on a set of workplace interaction corpora, both dyadic and multiparty, we present three narrative forms departing from the established notion of storytelling. These have been called Rewindings, collaborative reconstructions of yet-unknown past events; Fictions, the creation of imaginary scenes; and Templates, condensed versions of experience providing information on unexpected outcomes or controversial occurrences. Without denying specifi…
Collaboration in web design: Sharing knowledge, pursuing usability
Time, Narratives and Participation Frameworks in Software Troubleshooting
Planning and assessing performance through narratives in soccer team meetings
Soccer teams, as many other sport teams, need, among other activities, to plan their behaviours for future matches and to reflect upon their past performances on the pitch. Within a discursive perspective, we aim to analyse how narratives contribute to shape these team activities during technical meetings. The analyses are based on naturally occurring interactions of an Italian soccer team, recorded during three technical meetings (after a victor…
“It Seems That Things Take Care of Themselves”: Routines in Busy Family Lives
In this study we analyze how 15 working mothers talk about the ways in which routines contribute to sustaining the accomplishment of their domestic work. In particular, we analyze the routines’ function of coordinating multiple lines of activity, their property of anticipating the unexpected and incorporating alternative responses, and their character of being a local resource for practical thinking and action. We then discuss the role that moral…
Diagnostic Decision Making in Oncology: Creating Shared Knowledge and Managing Complexity
Drawing upon the concept of practice, the article explores diagnostic decision making in oncology through the analysis of informal conversations between doctors in an Italian hospital. The analysis shows that doctors rely on three collaborative practices: (a) joint interpretation, (b) intersubjective generation and validation of hypotheses, and (c) postponing the diagnostic decision. Through such practices, doctors jointly handle tough issues suc…
Social Interactions and Cultural Repertoires as Resources for Coping With Breast Cancer
The article aims to better understand the role of cultural and social resources for coping with cancer as a disruptive experience. Fourteen women who had recently received a diagnosis of breast cancer and started a treatment in an Italian hospital have been interviewed individually to elicit narratives regarding the interactions with the other patients. The analysis focused on the role played by social interactions and cultural repertoires as dev…
Managing risk and patient involvement in choosing treatment for cancer: An Analysis of Two Communication Practices
Drawing on conversation analyses of oncology consultations collected in Italy, the article examines the communication practices used to recommend treatments. We found that the oncologist formulates the treatment recommendation (TR) for high-risk patients in terms of a 'mandatory' choice and for low-risk patients as an 'optional' type of decision. In the first case the doctor presses to reach a decision during the visit while in the second case le…
Structuring times and activities in the oncology visit
Presenting treatment options in breast cancer consultations: Advice and consent in Italian medical care
Religiosity as a Cultural Resource for Arab-Palestinian Women's Coping with Cancer
Drawing on the discourse analysis of 36 in-depth interviews, this qualitative study explores how Arab-Palestinian women cope with breast cancer and ascribe meaning to their illness within the local religious and traditional cultural context. In particular, the study shows that religious beliefs and practices help Arab-Palestinian women to handle emotional and psychological difficulties while perpetuating traditional cultural norms of concealment.…
We will take care of you: Identity categorisation markers in intercultural medical encounters
Ethnomethodology research has systematically investigated discursive practices of categorisation, looking at the various ways by which social actors ascribe both themselves and others to identity categories to accomplish various kinds of social actions. Drawing on a data corpus of oncological visits collected in an Italian hospital, involving both native and non-native patients, the present work analyses how participants in these intercultural me…
Two Sources of Miscommunication in Oncology Consultations: An Observational Study Using Conversation Analysis
This article investigates miscommunication in sequences of talk where an oncologist asks about patients’ co-morbidities, that is, their other illnesses beyond cancer. Using conversation analysis, we examine ways in which the participants identify and manage two sources of miscommunication: a divergence in the doctor’s and the patient’s understandings about the scope of the question; and a divergence in the doctor’s and the patient’s (and sometime…
Children’s participation and agency in Italian residential care for children: Adult-child interactions at dinnertime
This paper analyzes the impact of adults’ interactive moves and strategies on children’s participation and agency at dinnertime in two Italian residential care facilities, one of the most widely used alternative care life-context for children and youth coming from vulnerable families. Participants are 14 children and 11 educators living in two residential care facilities in Rome (Italy). Adopting an interactional and multimodal analytic approach,…
Orchestrating children’s action: An in-depth multimodal analysis of child-educator interactions in one Italian early childhood education setting
Early childhood educational centers (ECEC) are contexts where young children make their first contact with specific, culturally determined rules, practices, and values. Only a few studies have analyzed in-depth the practices through which the educators direct the children’s action and attention while they are performing routine educational activities. By means of detailed transcription of educators-children conversations and Conversation Analytic…
Companions in immigrant oncology visits: Uncovering social dynamics through the lens of Goffman's footing and Conversation Analysis
This paper examines the role of companions in healthcare encounters, focusing on a previously unexamined context: the oncology visit with immigrant patients. By employing a methodological approach that combines elements of Goffman's footing and Conversation Analysis, this study discerns the social dynamics and communicative patterns among doctors, patients, and companions. Our focus on the companion yields an intricate picture of their multifacet…
Working With Traumatised Children During Traumatic Times: Residential Child Care Educators' Compassion Fatigue and Work Engagement
Drawing from an Italian study conducted in residential care for children and guided by the postulates of the Job Demands and Resources Model, our aims are to investigate residential childcare educators' levels of compassion fatigue and work engagement, and to focus on the individual, work and organisational conditions associated. The survey involved 215 educators who were on duty during the summer of 2023. Data analysis employed descriptive stati…
Living in Italian residential care under Covid-19 restrictions. A survey on adolescents’ perspectives over their psychosocial wellbeing
COVID-19 lockdown has been worldwide considered one of the major collective traumatic experiences for everyone, vulnerable adolescents included. Surprisingly, however, research on the experiences of adolescent living in residential care (RC) – considered it to be particularly exposed to traumas and developmental challenges – has been underdeveloped in the pandemic scenario. Bridging this gap and drawing on a national survey with Italian adolescen…
Family partnering in practice: The role of caregivers’ epistemological theories in their interaction with families
Research on alternative care – combined with evidence from family therapy and perspectives from children’s rights debates – robustly demonstrates that a crucial factor influencing the success of alternative care projects is family partnering, that is, maintaining relational continuity with birth families and participating with them, whenever it is judicially approved. However, there is a limited understanding of how this unfolds in practice. To a…
Psychology (18 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (11 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Conversation (7 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Conversation analysis (6 works)