Mie Femø Nielsen

• PhD, MA
• Managing Director at University of Copenhagen

Trust plays a pivotal role when aiding individuals in vulnerable positions. However, understanding the practical dynamics of trust remains limited. Empirical research on trust, particularly in collaborative and applied settings, is scarce. Trust in communications training is often treated as a nebulous concept, complicating its operationalization....

Trust in society is related to a perception of fairness and lack of bias. But bias has many faces. This article presents a conversation analytic study of the initial introduction of the debaters in so-called ‘presidential’ TV debates during the final stages of the general election campaigns in Denmark. The data represents a rare possibility to comp...

Formality is better than its reputation. Formality may accomplish and sustain shared attention, execute events in an orderly and fair manner and secure broad and relevant participation. Formality is moreover not rigid and binary. It is relative, dynamic, co-constructed, and locally negotiated. It may provide proactive solutions to complexities in c...

Bringing together trust research, rhetoric, ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, this book formulates an analytical program for conceptualizing and defining trustworthiness as an empirical research object in social interaction. Revisiting Trustworthiness in Social Interaction examines trustworthiness as a relational and dynamic concept. It...

The paper contributes to previous studies of identity as locally and interactionally produced by pointing to some of the multimodal resources employed by participants to achieving, challenge and manage the professional identity of ‘leader’ in different workplace settings. We examine professional identity work in sequential environments where it pro...

Instructing others to do something with an object is an ordinary practice that may involve embodied demonstrations. Based on a single case analysis of a "troublemaker" example we show how the instructor decomposes the general instruction into more mechanic steps that can be mimicked by the instructee. The example is chosen because it reveals some o...

Vi præsenterer i denne artikel en systematisk diskussion af, hvad multimodalitet er, samt hvordan multimodale interaktionsanalyser kan udføres ud fra et etnometodologisk og konversationsanalytisk (EMCA) perspektiv. Vi introducerer til de grundlæggende metodologiske antagelser og viser igennem tre eksemplariske analyser, hvilke temaer, problemstilli...

In this paper we examine how the talk of the facilitator shapes group workshop interactions by using the conversational object ‘formulation’. The data consist of video recordings of a corpus of four facilitated workshops held with management and development teams. By adopting an exploratory video-based investigation using conversational analysis to...

en This paper explores the linkage between intonation nested in conversation turns where the speaker is introducing something delicate (e.g., presenting information liable to provoke distancing) or pre‐empting resistance to their proposal when there is a strong risk of rejection. These movements, which appear prosodically marked, deviate not only f...

Followership research has increased recently, but little attention has been paid to the complexities and challenges of creating a followership identity. Researchers typically portray followership as a safe alternative to leadership identity, but we challenge this assumption by using naturally occurring workplace interactions to identify active cont...

The paper explores the social dynamics of tabooing, using sexual abuse of children as an example. Some social categories are problematic to embrace, because they entail socially problematic category bound activities in an emotional context of guilt and shame. This theoretical paper shows how a victim of sexual abuse as a child may suffer from two s...

In design and innovation processes, a difficulty is often to envision how new products and prototypes might be received when they are first "encountered" in real contexts of use. This paper reports on a case of prototype testing of a new dining tool, where people are asked to use a modified fork without any explanation about how to use it or the ra...

Participants in design processes make an effort to come up with solutions that will be deemed acceptable, while accomplishing to ‘think out of the box’. Thinking ‘outside the box’ is often announced as a challenge to and for design teams. ‘The box’ is a metaphor often used in creative processes, and in organisational practices, as a term for rules...

This article gives a canonical sequential analysis of openings and closings based on a corpus of department meetings. The first section of the article shows how opening a meeting constitutes a shift in turn-taking system. The second section identifies five techniques used in opening meetings. The third section identifies six techniques used in clos...

When people interact in institutional settings, they frequently invoke procedure. Professionals invoke procedure in order to set or negotiate the frame for the interaction: how it can, will, should or usually does proceed. This paper identifies an instance of invoking procedure (InP) by five criteria: a participant projects a forthcoming action or...

This article discusses ‘brainstorm’ interaction in a multimodal perspective. It shows how an innovation workshop facilitator is ‘doing facilitation’ by not only organizing group activities and managing turn-taking, but also drawing each group member out to participate actively and contribute to the group process. Institutional goals are transformed...

Middle managers interpret experiences and observations of employees and relate them to organizational contexts, practices, and strategies. By analyzing authentic verbal communication between middle managers and employees, this article will draw five conclusions about how interpretational work support organizational goals and values: 1. Middle manag...

Hvor fintunet kan selvfremstillingen være i moderne politikeres fremtræden på tv? Hvordan kan man overhovedet arbejde analytisk med personlig fremtræden? Denne artikel diskuterer identitetsarbejde ud fra konversationsanalytiske begreber med henblik på at give et bud på, hvordan man kan analysere og diskutere et fænomen som ‘profil’. Der eksemplific...

The article suggests an action-based taxonomy for interviews that reflects the interviewers behavior, depending on whether the interviewee is invited to, e.g., produce an argumentation for or account of something, to declare something or to tell a story. Using the conversation analytic method a range of Danish interviews are analysed. It shows thre...

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Overvejelser fra et projekt med at kortlægge brug og funktion af "nå" i det danske sprog.

Med basis i konversationsanalysen peges i artiklen på nogle af de træk i den dramatiske samtale, som får den til at nærme sig eller fjerne sig fra hverdagssamtalen. De teoretiske begreber kan bruges til at identificere forskelle mellem autentiske samtaler og drama og mellem forskellige dramatiske samtaler.

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Denne artikel beskæftiger sig med, om danskhed er essens eller konstruktion. Er det noget man er eller er det noget man gør? Uanset hvad, så gør vi noget med danskheden, når vi henviser til den i vores kommunikation. Danskheden bruges til noget i identitetskonstruktionen i debatten. Som en hjælp til at føre denne diskussion videre, introduceres et...