Jakub Mlynář
Biographic Data
| ID | 213492 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jakub Mlynář |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jakub |
| FAMILY NAME | Mlynář |
| SIGNATURE | MLYNÁŘ J |
| AFFILIATIONS | HES-SO Valais-Wallis |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5206-3212 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Simmel and Ethnomethodology: Foundational Sociological Issues from a Nondualist Perspective
Georg Simmel, despite being a founding father of sociology, is often excluded from the list of the discipline’s principal founders. This neglect of Simmel’s work was perpetuated in ethnomethodology even though, like ethnomethodology, Simmel’s work concerns the minute organization of everyday interaction. It can, therefore, be of considerable importance for ethnomethodological inquiries. A group of ethnomethodologists devoted two years to reviewin…
What the World is Made Up of”: The Chicago School’s Alternates and Laterals in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis
This article explores the intricate relationship between the development of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis (EM/CA) and the ethnographic traditions of the Chicago School (CS). By examining the historical and methodological intersections, the study highlights the complex and nuanced resonances between these influential sociological approaches with a focus on the ways CS writing featured in the development of EM/CA work. Drawing on archi…
K uplývající přítomnosti: Jedinečnost a opakování v sociálním jednání
Temporality is a fundamental dimension of human existence and social reality. In this article, I explore some implications for sociology arising from the tension between uniqueness and repetition. I propose that sociology should focus on what I term the “transient present”, which I conceive as the locus of the production of social structures. From this shifting center, the past and future emerge continuously in each moment as locally relevant, in…
AI in situated action: A scoping review of ethnomethodological and conversation analytic studies
Despite its elusiveness as a concept, ‘artificial intelligence’ (AI) is becoming part of everyday life, and a range of empirical and methodological approaches to social studies of AI now span many disciplines. This article reviews the scope of ethnomethodological and conversation analytic (EM/CA) approaches that treat AI as a phenomenon emerging in and through the situated organization of social interaction. Although this approach has been very i…
Story alteration in oral history retellings: Methods of comparative work
The digitalization of oral history (OH) has resulted in the availability of multiple interviews conducted with the same narrator under different circumstances. To explore the comparability of such materials, we analyze interviews with a Holocaust survivor from the Fortunoff Video Archive (1979) and the Visual History Archive (1997), focusing on instances in which she tells the “same” episode. We demonstrate that life-story segments before and aft…
Transcribing encounters with the 'wild: The neglected case of the poetics of ordinary talk
Poetics of ordinary talk' covers a wide range of conversational phenomena including sound patterns, prosody, puns and alliterations. Our paper focuses on the development of this topic pioneered by Harvey Sacks and later elaborated by Gail Jefferson, as well as its marginalisation in the contemporary landscape of qualitative research and ethnomethodology/conversation analysis (EM/CA). Using published and archival resources, and focusing on transcr…
Making sense of radiomics: Insights on human–AI collaboration in medical interaction from an observational user study
Technologies based on “artificial intelligence” (AI) are transforming every part of our society, including healthcare and medical institutions. An example of this trend is the novel field in oncology and radiology called radiomics, which is the extracting and mining of large-scale quantitative features from medical imaging by machine-learning (ML) algorithms. This paper explores situated work with a radiomics software platform, QuantImage (v2), a…
“Machine Down”: Making sense of human–computer interaction—Garfinkel’s research on Eliza and Lyric from 1967 to 1969 and its contemporary relevance
This paper examines Harold Garfinkel’s work with ELIZA and a related program LYRIC from 1967 to 1969. AI researchers have tended to treat successful human–machine interaction as if it relied primarily on non-human machine characteristics, and thus the often-reported attribution of human-like qualities to communication with computers has been criticized as a misperception—and humans who make such reports referred to as “deluded.” By contrast Garfi…
‘All the good spots are already taken’: The visual properties of interior social sceneries
This article provides an ethnomethodologically informed ethnographic investigation of visually recognisable aspects of shared work spots in co-working office rooms. We focus on the phenomenon of holding a place in such environments, and document the participants’ practices which constitute distinguishing between empty and taken places. Our investigation leads to a conceptualisation of designed and ad hoc places, noting that objective assessments …
Respecifying social change: The obsolescence of practices and the transience of technology
This article proposes that social change, a fundamental topic in sociological theory, can be productively revisited by attending to studies in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis (EM/CA). We argue that the corpus of EM/CA research, from the 1960s until the present day, provides details of the constitutive and identifying aspects of practices and activities that gradually transform into descriptions of obsolescent practices and activities, …
For Example” Formulations and the Interactional Work of Exemplification
Members in society make ubiquitous use of examples as a resource to engage in their everyday and specialized activities. This paper takes the resourcefulness of exemplification as a topic of inquiry by focusing on the formulative phrase “for example,” investigating its interactional work within the analytic framework of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis. The data used consists of 11 h of video-recordings of English as a Foreign Language …
Harold Garfinkel and Edward Rose in the early years of ethnomethodology
This article documents the beginning of the intellectual companionship between the founder of ethnomethodology, Harold Garfinkel, and Edward Rose, who is most often associated with his program of "ethno-inquiries." I present results from archival research focusing on the contacts and collaborations between Rose and Garfinkel in the years 1955-1965. First, I describe the review process for Rose and Felton's paper, submitted to the American Sociolo…
How “Tools” Produce “Data”: Searching in a Large Digital Corpus of Audiovisual Holocaust Testimonies
The field of Jewish Studies is facing many new challenges as a result of ongoing digitization. This chapter focuses on digital oral histories of the Holocaust. Following the digital revolution in oral history, many institutions now provide access to multiple collections at once. One of the new challenges is thus related to the simultaneous availability of several archives, as well as various search engines which apply different methods to browse …
Lifting the pen and the gaze: Embodied recruitment in collaborative writing
This article investigates sequences of collaborative writing that are part of classroom interaction in student dyads and triads working with a digital device and a paper worksheet. In analyzing instances from a corpus of 18 h of video recordings made in five high-school classrooms through an ethnomethodological and conversation analytic approach, I focus on two embodied practices which do the work of recruiting assistance during the course of ins…
How is Oral History Possible? On Linguistically Universal and Topically Specific Knowledge
Conducting oral history interviews or using them as research and educational resources requires the (mostly tacit) background knowledge necessary for understanding an interview or its excerpts. Taking the topic of commemoration and remembrance as a case in point, and analyzing fifteen interviews in the Czech and Slovak languages from the USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive, this article aims to consider the oral history interview as an …
Social media platforms are failed cities
research-article Share on Social media platforms are failed cities Authors: André Ourednik University of Fribourg University of FribourgView Profile , Jakub Mlynář University of Fribourg University of FribourgView Profile , Nico Mutzner University of Zurich University of ZurichView Profile , Hamed Alavi University of Fribourg University of FribourgView Profile Authors Info & Claims InteractionsVolume 28Issue 6November - December 2021 pp 62–66http…
I’ll tell you later on”: Proleptic and analeptic tying devices in oral history interviews
This article investigates an interactional phenomenon in which oral history interview participants deal with temporal structure in extended storytelling. It is based on the observation that while narrating a life story, participants routinely use its temporal structure as an organizing principle of the interview. Drawing inspiration from Sacks’ notion of tying devices and Genette’s distinction of prolepsis/analepsis, I have identified two forms o…
Konference k 10. výročí Centra vizuální historie Malach: Prague Visual History and Digital Humanities Conference 2020
Information: Konference k 10. výročí Centra vizuální historie Malach: Prague Visual History and Digital Humanities Conference 2020, 27.–28. 1. 2020
Jméno: Jeho Změna, Ztráta a Navrácení v Rozhovorech S Židovskými Přeživšími Holocaustu
This article aims to explore the personal name as an aspect of human identity, based on our analysis of several tens of oral-history autobiographical interviews from the USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive (http://vhaonline.usc.edu). The text reflects on the transformations and meanings of name in the war and post-war period, focusing on the compulsory and voluntary name change, but also its loss and supplementation by the (tattooed) nu…
Practical trust
We begin our article by placing various forms of trust distinguished by the literature along a continuum according to the truster's practical orientation toward the possibility of things not going as expected. We then present the ethnomethodological respecification of trust as an observable phenomenon of order involving continuous practical work, in situ and in real time. Conversation analysis provides tools for capturing how trust is accomplishe…
Výroční setkání Centra vizuální historie Malach – 28. 1. 2013
Gérard Noiriel: Úvod do sociohistorie
Gérard Noiriel: Úvod do sociohistorie. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství (SLON), 2012, 146 stran (přel. Pavel Sitek
Pluralita identit v autobiografickém vyprávění československých Židů žijících v zahraničí
This article explores selected aspects of narrative expression of identification with social entities in Holocaust survivors’ oral history testimonies, including the related conflicts of identities. In its empirical dimension, the study is based on secondary analysis of archived interviews with people born in Czechoslovakia and labelled as Jews by the Nürnberg laws, who had left Czechoslovakia and remained abroad. Oral history interview is concei…
Unique Collection of Interviews with Armenian Genocide Witnesses and Survivors is Available at the Charles University in Prague
Malach Center for Visual History at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at the Charles University in Prague was founded in 2009 as a licensed access point to USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive
Jacques Le Goff: Must We Divide History Into Periods
Jacques Le Goff: Must We Divide History Into Periods? Columbia University Press, 2015, 184 pages
Practical trust
We begin our article by placing various forms of trust distinguished by the literature along a continuum according to the truster's practical orientation toward the possibility of things not going as expected. We then present the ethnomethodological respecification of trust as an observable phenomenon of order involving continuous practical work, in situ and in real time. Conversation analysis provides tools for capturing how trust is accomplishe…
For Example” Formulations and the Interactional Work of Exemplification
Members in society make ubiquitous use of examples as a resource to engage in their everyday and specialized activities. This paper takes the resourcefulness of exemplification as a topic of inquiry by focusing on the formulative phrase “for example,” investigating its interactional work within the analytic framework of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis. The data used consists of 11 h of video-recordings of English as a Foreign Language …
Harold Garfinkel and Edward Rose in the early years of ethnomethodology
This article documents the beginning of the intellectual companionship between the founder of ethnomethodology, Harold Garfinkel, and Edward Rose, who is most often associated with his program of "ethno-inquiries." I present results from archival research focusing on the contacts and collaborations between Rose and Garfinkel in the years 1955-1965. First, I describe the review process for Rose and Felton's paper, submitted to the American Sociolo…
I’ll tell you later on”: Proleptic and analeptic tying devices in oral history interviews
This article investigates an interactional phenomenon in which oral history interview participants deal with temporal structure in extended storytelling. It is based on the observation that while narrating a life story, participants routinely use its temporal structure as an organizing principle of the interview. Drawing inspiration from Sacks’ notion of tying devices and Genette’s distinction of prolepsis/analepsis, I have identified two forms o…
Jiří Šubrt, Jiří Vinopal a kol: Historické vědomí obyvatel České republiky perspektivou sociologického výzkumu
Jiří Šubrt, Jiří Vinopal a kol.: Historické vědomí obyvatel České republiky perspektivou sociologického výzkumu. Praha: Karolinum, 2013, 258 str
Transcribing encounters with the 'wild: The neglected case of the poetics of ordinary talk
Poetics of ordinary talk' covers a wide range of conversational phenomena including sound patterns, prosody, puns and alliterations. Our paper focuses on the development of this topic pioneered by Harvey Sacks and later elaborated by Gail Jefferson, as well as its marginalisation in the contemporary landscape of qualitative research and ethnomethodology/conversation analysis (EM/CA). Using published and archival resources, and focusing on transcr…
Výroční setkání Centra vizuální historie Malach – 28. 1. 2013
Pluralita identit v autobiografickém vyprávění československých Židů žijících v zahraničí
This article explores selected aspects of narrative expression of identification with social entities in Holocaust survivors’ oral history testimonies, including the related conflicts of identities. In its empirical dimension, the study is based on secondary analysis of archived interviews with people born in Czechoslovakia and labelled as Jews by the Nürnberg laws, who had left Czechoslovakia and remained abroad. Oral history interview is concei…
Unique Collection of Interviews with Armenian Genocide Witnesses and Survivors is Available at the Charles University in Prague
Malach Center for Visual History at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at the Charles University in Prague was founded in 2009 as a licensed access point to USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive
Jacques Le Goff: Must We Divide History Into Periods
Jacques Le Goff: Must We Divide History Into Periods? Columbia University Press, 2015, 184 pages
Jiří Šubrt, Jiří Vinopal a kol: Historické vědomí obyvatel České republiky perspektivou sociologického výzkumu
Jiří Šubrt, Jiří Vinopal a kol.: Historické vědomí obyvatel České republiky perspektivou sociologického výzkumu. Praha: Karolinum, 2013, 258 str
Peter Auer: Jazyková interakce
Peter Auer: Jazyková interakce. Praha: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2014, 312 str
Unique Collection of Interviews with Armenian Genocide Witnesses and Survivors is Available at the Charles University in Prague
Malach Center for Visual History at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at the Charles University in Prague was founded in 2009 as a licensed access point to USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive
Jacques Le Goff: Must We Divide History Into Periods
Jacques Le Goff: Must We Divide History Into Periods? Columbia University Press, 2015, 184 pages
Speaking of Interaction: The Case of the Czech Republic
Pluralita identit v autobiografickém vyprávění československých Židů žijících v zahraničí
This article explores selected aspects of narrative expression of identification with social entities in Holocaust survivors’ oral history testimonies, including the related conflicts of identities. In its empirical dimension, the study is based on secondary analysis of archived interviews with people born in Czechoslovakia and labelled as Jews by the Nürnberg laws, who had left Czechoslovakia and remained abroad. Oral history interview is concei…
Výroční setkání Centra vizuální historie Malach – 28. 1. 2013
Gérard Noiriel: Úvod do sociohistorie
Gérard Noiriel: Úvod do sociohistorie. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství (SLON), 2012, 146 stran (přel. Pavel Sitek
Jméno: Jeho Změna, Ztráta a Navrácení v Rozhovorech S Židovskými Přeživšími Holocaustu
This article aims to explore the personal name as an aspect of human identity, based on our analysis of several tens of oral-history autobiographical interviews from the USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive (http://vhaonline.usc.edu). The text reflects on the transformations and meanings of name in the war and post-war period, focusing on the compulsory and voluntary name change, but also its loss and supplementation by the (tattooed) nu…
Practical trust
We begin our article by placing various forms of trust distinguished by the literature along a continuum according to the truster's practical orientation toward the possibility of things not going as expected. We then present the ethnomethodological respecification of trust as an observable phenomenon of order involving continuous practical work, in situ and in real time. Conversation analysis provides tools for capturing how trust is accomplishe…
I’ll tell you later on”: Proleptic and analeptic tying devices in oral history interviews
This article investigates an interactional phenomenon in which oral history interview participants deal with temporal structure in extended storytelling. It is based on the observation that while narrating a life story, participants routinely use its temporal structure as an organizing principle of the interview. Drawing inspiration from Sacks’ notion of tying devices and Genette’s distinction of prolepsis/analepsis, I have identified two forms o…
Konference k 10. výročí Centra vizuální historie Malach: Prague Visual History and Digital Humanities Conference 2020
Information: Konference k 10. výročí Centra vizuální historie Malach: Prague Visual History and Digital Humanities Conference 2020, 27.–28. 1. 2020
Social media platforms are failed cities
research-article Share on Social media platforms are failed cities Authors: André Ourednik University of Fribourg University of FribourgView Profile , Jakub Mlynář University of Fribourg University of FribourgView Profile , Nico Mutzner University of Zurich University of ZurichView Profile , Hamed Alavi University of Fribourg University of FribourgView Profile Authors Info & Claims InteractionsVolume 28Issue 6November - December 2021 pp 62–66http…
How “Tools” Produce “Data”: Searching in a Large Digital Corpus of Audiovisual Holocaust Testimonies
The field of Jewish Studies is facing many new challenges as a result of ongoing digitization. This chapter focuses on digital oral histories of the Holocaust. Following the digital revolution in oral history, many institutions now provide access to multiple collections at once. One of the new challenges is thus related to the simultaneous availability of several archives, as well as various search engines which apply different methods to browse …
Lifting the pen and the gaze: Embodied recruitment in collaborative writing
This article investigates sequences of collaborative writing that are part of classroom interaction in student dyads and triads working with a digital device and a paper worksheet. In analyzing instances from a corpus of 18 h of video recordings made in five high-school classrooms through an ethnomethodological and conversation analytic approach, I focus on two embodied practices which do the work of recruiting assistance during the course of ins…
How is Oral History Possible? On Linguistically Universal and Topically Specific Knowledge
Conducting oral history interviews or using them as research and educational resources requires the (mostly tacit) background knowledge necessary for understanding an interview or its excerpts. Taking the topic of commemoration and remembrance as a case in point, and analyzing fifteen interviews in the Czech and Slovak languages from the USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive, this article aims to consider the oral history interview as an …
Respecifying social change: The obsolescence of practices and the transience of technology
This article proposes that social change, a fundamental topic in sociological theory, can be productively revisited by attending to studies in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis (EM/CA). We argue that the corpus of EM/CA research, from the 1960s until the present day, provides details of the constitutive and identifying aspects of practices and activities that gradually transform into descriptions of obsolescent practices and activities, …
For Example” Formulations and the Interactional Work of Exemplification
Members in society make ubiquitous use of examples as a resource to engage in their everyday and specialized activities. This paper takes the resourcefulness of exemplification as a topic of inquiry by focusing on the formulative phrase “for example,” investigating its interactional work within the analytic framework of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis. The data used consists of 11 h of video-recordings of English as a Foreign Language …
Harold Garfinkel and Edward Rose in the early years of ethnomethodology
This article documents the beginning of the intellectual companionship between the founder of ethnomethodology, Harold Garfinkel, and Edward Rose, who is most often associated with his program of "ethno-inquiries." I present results from archival research focusing on the contacts and collaborations between Rose and Garfinkel in the years 1955-1965. First, I describe the review process for Rose and Felton's paper, submitted to the American Sociolo…
Making sense of radiomics: Insights on human–AI collaboration in medical interaction from an observational user study
Technologies based on “artificial intelligence” (AI) are transforming every part of our society, including healthcare and medical institutions. An example of this trend is the novel field in oncology and radiology called radiomics, which is the extracting and mining of large-scale quantitative features from medical imaging by machine-learning (ML) algorithms. This paper explores situated work with a radiomics software platform, QuantImage (v2), a…
“Machine Down”: Making sense of human–computer interaction—Garfinkel’s research on Eliza and Lyric from 1967 to 1969 and its contemporary relevance
This paper examines Harold Garfinkel’s work with ELIZA and a related program LYRIC from 1967 to 1969. AI researchers have tended to treat successful human–machine interaction as if it relied primarily on non-human machine characteristics, and thus the often-reported attribution of human-like qualities to communication with computers has been criticized as a misperception—and humans who make such reports referred to as “deluded.” By contrast Garfi…
‘All the good spots are already taken’: The visual properties of interior social sceneries
This article provides an ethnomethodologically informed ethnographic investigation of visually recognisable aspects of shared work spots in co-working office rooms. We focus on the phenomenon of holding a place in such environments, and document the participants’ practices which constitute distinguishing between empty and taken places. Our investigation leads to a conceptualisation of designed and ad hoc places, noting that objective assessments …
K uplývající přítomnosti: Jedinečnost a opakování v sociálním jednání
Temporality is a fundamental dimension of human existence and social reality. In this article, I explore some implications for sociology arising from the tension between uniqueness and repetition. I propose that sociology should focus on what I term the “transient present”, which I conceive as the locus of the production of social structures. From this shifting center, the past and future emerge continuously in each moment as locally relevant, in…
AI in situated action: A scoping review of ethnomethodological and conversation analytic studies
Despite its elusiveness as a concept, ‘artificial intelligence’ (AI) is becoming part of everyday life, and a range of empirical and methodological approaches to social studies of AI now span many disciplines. This article reviews the scope of ethnomethodological and conversation analytic (EM/CA) approaches that treat AI as a phenomenon emerging in and through the situated organization of social interaction. Although this approach has been very i…
Story alteration in oral history retellings: Methods of comparative work
The digitalization of oral history (OH) has resulted in the availability of multiple interviews conducted with the same narrator under different circumstances. To explore the comparability of such materials, we analyze interviews with a Holocaust survivor from the Fortunoff Video Archive (1979) and the Visual History Archive (1997), focusing on instances in which she tells the “same” episode. We demonstrate that life-story segments before and aft…
Sociology (16 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · Art (10 works) · Ethnomethodology (9 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Conversation (7 works) · Conversation analysis (7 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Communication (6 works)