The Conversational Rollercoaster

Main editor for a short video explaining the project: ‘The Conversational Rollercoaster: ethnomethodology & conversation analysis at New Scientist Live’

The Conversational Rollercoaster is a new public ‘demo’ format for ethnomethodology and conversation analysis. We developed the format for New Scientist Live in collaboration with Loughborough and the CARM group in order to make it easier to explain EM/CA research in a public exhibition context. The idea is that you can take a live conversation – in this case provided by The People Speak‘s pop-up talk-show Talkaoke, and subject it to instant EM/CA analysis. What’s more, you can involve the public as analysts in a variety of activities – ‘being the data’ on the Talkaoke table, spotting interactional phenomena, gathering data, transcribing, analyzing and reporting findings on the ‘results wall’.