Mehmet Ali Icbay
@maicbay.bsky.social
Institute for Intercultural Communication at Vienna University of Economics and Business @wuvienna.bsky.social | EMCA | 🇦🇹🇹🇷🇺🇦
My paper on joint decision-making in Video Assistant Referee (football) is now published in Journal of Sport and Social Issues. And the best co-thinker I had? My 11-year-old son, Timur! His unexpected suggestions during analysis genuinely changed the paper. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
February 5, 2026 at 7:15 PM
My paper on joint decision-making in Video Assistant Referee (football) is now published in Journal of Sport and Social Issues. And the best co-thinker I had? My 11-year-old son, Timur! His unexpected suggestions during analysis genuinely changed the paper. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
To my friends living in the United States: I’m angry—and honestly, I’m shocked—at how quickly the Jeffrey Epstein case has been allowed to fade into background noise.
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To my friends living in the United States: I’m angry—and honestly, I’m shocked—at how quickly the Jeffrey Epstein case has been allowed to fade into background noise. Jeffrey Epstein didn’t operate… |...
To my friends living in the United States: I’m angry—and honestly, I’m shocked—at how quickly the Jeffrey Epstein case has been allowed to fade into background noise. Jeffrey Epstein didn’t operate in...
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February 4, 2026 at 12:33 PM
To my friends living in the United States: I’m angry—and honestly, I’m shocked—at how quickly the Jeffrey Epstein case has been allowed to fade into background noise.
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We’re excited to announce this semester’s Data Sessions at the Institute for Intercultural Communication (WU Vienna)!
📍 Location: D2 Building, WU Campus Vienna
For more information, feel free to contact me at micbay@wu.ac.at
📍 Location: D2 Building, WU Campus Vienna
For more information, feel free to contact me at micbay@wu.ac.at
February 2, 2026 at 8:12 PM
We’re excited to announce this semester’s Data Sessions at the Institute for Intercultural Communication (WU Vienna)!
📍 Location: D2 Building, WU Campus Vienna
For more information, feel free to contact me at micbay@wu.ac.at
📍 Location: D2 Building, WU Campus Vienna
For more information, feel free to contact me at micbay@wu.ac.at
Migration ist mehr als ein Problem, das kontrolliert werden muss
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Migration ist mehr als ein Problem, das kontrolliert werden muss
Will Österreich soziale Spannungen rund um Integration reduzieren, sollte endlich auf qualifizierte Zuwanderung gesetzt werden. Davon würde die Gesellschaft stark profitieren
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January 25, 2026 at 10:45 AM
Migration ist mehr als ein Problem, das kontrolliert werden muss
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Garfinkel’s respecification is a one-way door (a curse): familiar “topics” become analysts’ terms. After converting to ethnomethodology, you’re stuck (happily) with the hard task: finding the empirical evidence of members’ methods.
January 11, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Garfinkel’s respecification is a one-way door (a curse): familiar “topics” become analysts’ terms. After converting to ethnomethodology, you’re stuck (happily) with the hard task: finding the empirical evidence of members’ methods.
Wishing you all a happy new year! Hope 2026 may end the wars, the hunger, and the hate, and of course may bring us all health, happiness, joy, money and love! 💝
December 31, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Wishing you all a happy new year! Hope 2026 may end the wars, the hunger, and the hate, and of course may bring us all health, happiness, joy, money and love! 💝
This short video captures an ordinary moment that unexpectedly illustrates a long-standing methodological problem in social research.
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December 28, 2025 at 11:43 PM
This short video captures an ordinary moment that unexpectedly illustrates a long-standing methodological problem in social research.
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In this way, even something as ordinary as a sidewalk becomes a silent storyteller: revealing how cities, and the cultures that shape them, navigate order, diversity, and the unknown.
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Culture on the Brussels Sidewalk
© Mehmet Ali Icbay - November 2025
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November 23, 2025 at 10:50 PM
In this way, even something as ordinary as a sidewalk becomes a silent storyteller: revealing how cities, and the cultures that shape them, navigate order, diversity, and the unknown.
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Thank you for this warm and highly engaging book review, Mehmet Ali Icbay. 🧡 maicbay.substack.com/p/migrations...
October 15, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Thank you for this warm and highly engaging book review, Mehmet Ali Icbay. 🧡 maicbay.substack.com/p/migrations...
The Cambridge report on academic publishing becomes the latest symptom of academic imperialism—an institutional realization that the traditional mechanisms of control are slipping. The old academic empires sense that they can no longer exploit intellectual labor.
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Academic Imperialism in Publishing and the Cambridge Report on Publishing
Because of my long-standing ethnomethodological research belief that sequentiality matters—that A comes after B and before C, and A’s placement within this sequence defines its meaning—one of the firs...
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November 11, 2025 at 10:42 AM
The Cambridge report on academic publishing becomes the latest symptom of academic imperialism—an institutional realization that the traditional mechanisms of control are slipping. The old academic empires sense that they can no longer exploit intellectual labor.
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The Collapse of the Soviet Union, the Decline of the Welfare State in Europe, and the Return of Global Titans
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The Collapse of the Soviet Union, the Decline of the Welfare State in Europe, and the Return of Global Titans
This essay reflects on my impressions of the profound changes that have shaped the modern world since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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September 30, 2025 at 10:51 AM
The Collapse of the Soviet Union, the Decline of the Welfare State in Europe, and the Return of Global Titans
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Have you taught (or currently teaching) Conversation Analysis, Ethnomethodology, or related #EMCA courses at your institution? If so, I’d love to hear from you! Please share your experiences and insights in this survey!
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August 26, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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New on Early View: “Exploring the EMCA Community: Strengths, Challenges, and Opportunities” by Mehmet Ali Icbay https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.70010 #emca #sssi #ethnomethodology #conversationanalysis #science #community
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New on Early View: “Exploring the EMCA Community: Strengths, Challenges, and Opportunities” by Mehmet Ali Icbay https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.70010 #emca #sssi #ethnomethodology #conversationanalysis #science #community
We have just published New on Early View: "Exploring the EMCA Community: Strengths, Challenges, and Opportunities" by Mehmet Ali Icbay on Early View of Symbolic Interaction. Members of SSSI can access the article HERE and by clicking the image below. To join SSSI and subscribe to Symbolic Interaction from $35 (£30), please click HERE.
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August 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
New on Early View: “Exploring the EMCA Community: Strengths, Challenges, and Opportunities” by Mehmet Ali Icbay https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.70010 #emca #sssi #ethnomethodology #conversationanalysis #science #community
We have just published New on Early View: "Exploring the EMCA Community:…
We have just published New on Early View: "Exploring the EMCA Community:…
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Our edited book is available to pre-order: Women in Health Management: Global Revolutionaires, a really wonderful collection of work on women who shaped their care contexts. #women #healthcaremanagement
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Women in Health Management: Global Revolutionaries
Writings on health and health management have long been concerned with the great figures that have preserved, protected or extended life. From Hippocrates and Galen to Vesalius, Lister, Mengele, Paste...
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June 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Our edited book is available to pre-order: Women in Health Management: Global Revolutionaires, a really wonderful collection of work on women who shaped their care contexts. #women #healthcaremanagement
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I’m thrilled to share that my latest paper on the #EMCA community has just been published online in Symbolic Interaction! A big thank you to the participants, contributors, and anonymous reviewers for their insights, time, and support throughout the process.
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August 2, 2025 at 9:34 AM
I’m thrilled to share that my latest paper on the #EMCA community has just been published online in Symbolic Interaction! A big thank you to the participants, contributors, and anonymous reviewers for their insights, time, and support throughout the process.
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Delighted to announce our latest paper @mariecasey.bsky.social @maicbay.bsky.social . It’s about public health doctors in Ireland and their reflections on working through the pandemic and the work-related change that followed #DrRetention www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Emerging from the pandemic and reflecting on change: public health doctors in Ireland
This study aimed to generate insights into the working lives of Public Health doctors as they worked through a period of immense change relating to th…
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May 21, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Delighted to announce our latest paper @mariecasey.bsky.social @maicbay.bsky.social . It’s about public health doctors in Ireland and their reflections on working through the pandemic and the work-related change that followed #DrRetention www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
My latest entry on laughter, death and time.
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Easter Vacation III: Social boundaries in cultures
This is the third entry in my series of observations about my own culture during my Easter vacation in Çanakkale.
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April 28, 2025 at 8:07 AM
My latest entry on laughter, death and time.
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My latest entry on Substack on building trust.
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Building trust: A must-have skill for business after Trump
Trump, protectionism and business
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April 10, 2025 at 10:56 AM
My latest entry on Substack on building trust.
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"But at my back I always hear
Time’s wingèd [fascist] chariot hurrying near."
- To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell
Fascism is rising again, similar to the period before WW2: Putin, Orban, Trump, and many more around the world. Scary, worrying times for good, hardworking, law abiding citizens.
Time’s wingèd [fascist] chariot hurrying near."
- To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell
Fascism is rising again, similar to the period before WW2: Putin, Orban, Trump, and many more around the world. Scary, worrying times for good, hardworking, law abiding citizens.
March 30, 2025 at 11:27 AM
"But at my back I always hear
Time’s wingèd [fascist] chariot hurrying near."
- To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell
Fascism is rising again, similar to the period before WW2: Putin, Orban, Trump, and many more around the world. Scary, worrying times for good, hardworking, law abiding citizens.
Time’s wingèd [fascist] chariot hurrying near."
- To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell
Fascism is rising again, similar to the period before WW2: Putin, Orban, Trump, and many more around the world. Scary, worrying times for good, hardworking, law abiding citizens.
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Accomplishing lesson ending: bringing lesson to an end, by Mehmet Ali İçbay @maicbay.bsky.social (Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Türkiye) doi.org/10.1080/1946... /5.
Accomplishing lesson ending: bringing lesson to an end
This ethnomethodological study examines the dynamics of lesson closure in diverse classroom settings, drawing on the sequential analysis of five video-recorded lessons in history, literature, chemi...
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February 21, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Accomplishing lesson ending: bringing lesson to an end, by Mehmet Ali İçbay @maicbay.bsky.social (Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Türkiye) doi.org/10.1080/1946... /5.
If I were to choose a single line to summarize my work in the social sciences, it would be this: "[...] and by paying to the
most commonplace activities of daily life the attention usually accorded extraordinary events, seek to learn about them as phenomena in their own right” (Garfinkel, 1984: 1).
most commonplace activities of daily life the attention usually accorded extraordinary events, seek to learn about them as phenomena in their own right” (Garfinkel, 1984: 1).
February 7, 2025 at 8:55 AM
If I were to choose a single line to summarize my work in the social sciences, it would be this: "[...] and by paying to the
most commonplace activities of daily life the attention usually accorded extraordinary events, seek to learn about them as phenomena in their own right” (Garfinkel, 1984: 1).
most commonplace activities of daily life the attention usually accorded extraordinary events, seek to learn about them as phenomena in their own right” (Garfinkel, 1984: 1).