Participation cues

Coordinating activity and collaboration in complex online gaming worlds

Bibliographic Data

ID2913582
AuthorsElizabeth Keating (0000-0002-2546-2733, The University of Texas at Austin), Chiho Sunakawa (The University of Texas at Austin)
Year2010
Volume39
Issue3
Pages331-356
Publication date2010-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLanguage in Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-4045 • E-ISSN: 1469-8013
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0047404510000217
OpenAlexW2023097158
LanguageEN
Citations received21
References cited53

The development of digital communication technologies not only has an influence on human communicative practices, but also creates new spaces for human collaborative activity. In this article we discuss a technologically mediated context for interaction, computer games. Closely looking at interactions among a group of gamers, we examine how players are managing complex, shifting frameworks of participation, the virtual game world and the embodied world of talk and plans for action. Introducing the notion ofparticipation cues, we explain how interactants are able to orient to, plan, and execute collaborative actions that span quite different environments with quite different types of agency, possible acts, and consequences. Novel abilities to interact across diverse spaces have consequences for understanding how humans build coordinated action through efficient, multimodal communication mechanisms. (Computer-mediated communication, language and technology, gaming, gesture, participation, multimodality

Action (physics) · Agency (philosophy) · Context (archaeology) · Embodied cognition · Gesture · Human–computer interaction · Multimodality · Sociology · World Wide Web · Communication · Computer Science · Digital Communication and Language · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition

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