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The empirical basis of this study is the examination of audio and video records of a screen-focussed classroom activity that involved the use of a newly developed software system designed to enable understanding of and reflection on literary works through the depiction of those works in the form of an on-screen storyboard. The central attention is on the way in which two pupils compose, in collaboration, an additional image for their shared storyboard, showing how their task coordination involves their verbal and gestural activities as centred upon the use of the on-screen image forming resources supplied by the software system. The analysis is connected to general arguments about the debated issue of ‘emergence’ in social science literature by proposing an ethnomethodological treatment of emergence as something that is generated in and through the organisation of courses of action.

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collaboration emergence ethnomethodology gesture imagery interaction

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