Giovanni Rossi
@gio-rossi.bsky.social
Social Interaction, Action and Understanding, Body Behavior, Conversation Analysis, Mixed Methods, Cross-Cultural Comparison, Systems Thinking. Associate Professor at UCLA Sociology.
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Giovanni Rossi
@gio-rossi.bsky.social
· Oct 15
🚨 Now available in print worldwide 🌍 If access is a challenge, don't hesitate to reach out 💫 doi.org/10.1093/oso/...
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Democracy under threat via the "empirically observable breakdown in the interactional practices that constitute democratic accountability between media and state power."
Wayne Martin Mellinger on Steve Clayman's decades of #EMCA research 👇
doingmodernity.blogspot.com/2025/11/demo...
Wayne Martin Mellinger on Steve Clayman's decades of #EMCA research 👇
doingmodernity.blogspot.com/2025/11/demo...
Democracy Under Threat: Steven Clayman's Interactional Analysis and the Crisis We Can No Longer Ignore"
Democracy Under Threat: Steven Clayman’s Interactional Analysis and the Crisis We Can No Longer Ignore Wayne Martin Mellinger, Ph.D. Abstr...
doingmodernity.blogspot.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Democracy under threat via the "empirically observable breakdown in the interactional practices that constitute democratic accountability between media and state power."
Wayne Martin Mellinger on Steve Clayman's decades of #EMCA research 👇
doingmodernity.blogspot.com/2025/11/demo...
Wayne Martin Mellinger on Steve Clayman's decades of #EMCA research 👇
doingmodernity.blogspot.com/2025/11/demo...
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When we ask for something big—time, effort, money—do we hedge against rejection or assume success? With @gio-rossi.bsky.social & Tanya Stivers, we find that people are incurably optimistic, even though big requests often meet resistance. Published open access in @socquarterly.bsky.social. #EMCA
Incurable Optimism about Getting What We Want: Anticipating Success in Everyday Requests
When asking for something significant from another person, speakers not only set the tilt of the question toward the affirmative or negative but also display an optimistic or pessimistic stance tow...
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October 30, 2025 at 8:46 PM
When we ask for something big—time, effort, money—do we hedge against rejection or assume success? With @gio-rossi.bsky.social & Tanya Stivers, we find that people are incurably optimistic, even though big requests often meet resistance. Published open access in @socquarterly.bsky.social. #EMCA
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Recruiting PhD students!
Join my new lab @Dartmouth Psychology! Looking for students who want to decode the science of conversation together. We'll study conversational dynamics, impression formation, and face-to-face interaction.
Feel free to reach out with questions!
Due Dec 1
bit.ly/4mSutgM
Join my new lab @Dartmouth Psychology! Looking for students who want to decode the science of conversation together. We'll study conversational dynamics, impression formation, and face-to-face interaction.
Feel free to reach out with questions!
Due Dec 1
bit.ly/4mSutgM
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October 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Recruiting PhD students!
Join my new lab @Dartmouth Psychology! Looking for students who want to decode the science of conversation together. We'll study conversational dynamics, impression formation, and face-to-face interaction.
Feel free to reach out with questions!
Due Dec 1
bit.ly/4mSutgM
Join my new lab @Dartmouth Psychology! Looking for students who want to decode the science of conversation together. We'll study conversational dynamics, impression formation, and face-to-face interaction.
Feel free to reach out with questions!
Due Dec 1
bit.ly/4mSutgM
🚨 Now available in print worldwide 🌍 If access is a challenge, don't hesitate to reach out 💫 doi.org/10.1093/oso/...
October 15, 2025 at 6:51 PM
🚨 Now available in print worldwide 🌍 If access is a challenge, don't hesitate to reach out 💫 doi.org/10.1093/oso/...
Reposted by Giovanni Rossi
🚨 new #emca paper klaxon 🚨
on-duty police regularly have to deal with recording bystanders. if they decide to open interaction, how do they do so? Uwe and I investigate 🕵🏻 in Language in Society
🔓 OA: www.cambridge.org/core/service...
on-duty police regularly have to deal with recording bystanders. if they decide to open interaction, how do they do so? Uwe and I investigate 🕵🏻 in Language in Society
🔓 OA: www.cambridge.org/core/service...
August 21, 2025 at 5:06 PM
🚨 new #emca paper klaxon 🚨
on-duty police regularly have to deal with recording bystanders. if they decide to open interaction, how do they do so? Uwe and I investigate 🕵🏻 in Language in Society
🔓 OA: www.cambridge.org/core/service...
on-duty police regularly have to deal with recording bystanders. if they decide to open interaction, how do they do so? Uwe and I investigate 🕵🏻 in Language in Society
🔓 OA: www.cambridge.org/core/service...
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Very excited to announce this faculty search at Rutgers! Looking for a wonderful new colleague to join us in Communication #EMCA #LSI @ica-lsi.bsky.social @lansi2024.bsky.social
jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/258...
jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/258...
Tenure-Track/Tenured Faculty Position in Language, Interaction, and Interpersonal Communication (Open Rank)
The Department of Communication at Rutgers University’s School of Communication and Information seeks a full-time faculty member in language, interaction, and interpersonal communication. The search i...
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August 19, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Very excited to announce this faculty search at Rutgers! Looking for a wonderful new colleague to join us in Communication #EMCA #LSI @ica-lsi.bsky.social @lansi2024.bsky.social
jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/258...
jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/258...
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I have one more presentation during #ASA2025! On Monday at 2pm come listen to me talk about how conflict between Christian Right activists and Southern Baptist missionary executives led to bureaucratic centralization that no one wanted: tinyurl.com/29czdf2q
Social and Organizational Forces Influencing Religious Actors
This session investigates how religious actors and institutions are shaped by broader social, legal, and organizational forces. Papers explore the impact of legal and cultural shifts on religious beha...
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August 10, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I have one more presentation during #ASA2025! On Monday at 2pm come listen to me talk about how conflict between Christian Right activists and Southern Baptist missionary executives led to bureaucratic centralization that no one wanted: tinyurl.com/29czdf2q
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Calling all early birds! Check out this great session at the Association for the Sociology of Religion on Sunday at 8:30. I'll be presenting a piece of my book project on covert evangelism and international missions. Hope to see you there!
August 9, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Calling all early birds! Check out this great session at the Association for the Sociology of Religion on Sunday at 8:30. I'll be presenting a piece of my book project on covert evangelism and international missions. Hope to see you there!
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If you're going to be in Chicago tomorrow (August 6) come to the Voco hotel at 11am to catch my presentation, "Typical Expectations and the Moral Order: Talcott Parsons, Harold Garfinkel, and the Sticky Problem of Meaning" at the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction @sijournal.bsky.social!
August 5, 2025 at 2:36 PM
If you're going to be in Chicago tomorrow (August 6) come to the Voco hotel at 11am to catch my presentation, "Typical Expectations and the Moral Order: Talcott Parsons, Harold Garfinkel, and the Sticky Problem of Meaning" at the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction @sijournal.bsky.social!
1/ 📘 Book alert! 🚨 After a long gestation, extensive rewriting, a complex production process, and life getting in the way, it’s finally out* ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/oso/...
Systems of Social Action: The Case of Requesting in Italian
Abstract. This book is about social action as it is carried out in everyday life. To some readers, the phrase social action may evoke the idea of people ta
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July 25, 2025 at 5:59 PM
1/ 📘 Book alert! 🚨 After a long gestation, extensive rewriting, a complex production process, and life getting in the way, it’s finally out* ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/oso/...