Action and Situated Interaction

The journal Réseaux was probably the main driver of the spread of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis in France. This singular position in the world of French-speaking publications contributed to introducing these action and situated interaction disciplines into the Information and Communication Sciences and into sociology. This is how the earliest conversation analysis studies emerged, focused on sequential organizations of telephone conversations, along with the perspectives of ethnomethodology, highlighting its contribution to communication theory, and studies on the very first mediated interactions with videophone calling and computer-telephone integration. Though truly diverse, these studies share a singular analytical perspective, which gives special importance to the detailed and systematic examination of the organization of ordinary activities in sociological research.