ABSTRACT
This chapter respecifies mobile multimedia as something that is inseparable from those human activities in which it participates. It describes the task of recovering the work of multimedia messaging. Mobile multimedia provides people with the technical means to capture and share things they come up with in their lives. In doing so, they may utilize text, talk, sounds, images—and sometimes video. Following Harold Garfinkel and ethnomethodological studies on representations, Iipo Kalevi Koskinen et al. argue that although any elements of mobile multimedia can be understood in several ways, in actual messages these elements define each other in a reflexive fashion. Ethnomethodological studies on representations show that seeing is a bodily and often a social activity. Ethnomethodology and its offspring, conversation analysis, lead to a detailed study of action as it evolves turn by turn, with a focus on how people situate themselves in this evolving line of action.
