This insightful and accessible book is a response to the increasing important role that technology plays in everyday life, and the urgent need for empirical studies that analyse the impact of technology on social practices.

1 Introduction Part 1 Power and Control 2 Being Family and Friends to Abused Women - A Qualitative Study of Digital Media in Intimate Partner Violence 3 News, Sex, and the Fight Between Corporate Control and Human Communication Online 4 Terminal Violence: Online Interactions and Infra-Humanization 5 Summing Up the Criminal Case Online Part 2 Identity and Community 6 Organizing Subcultural Identities on Social Media: Instagram Infrastructures and User Actions 7 A Queer Kind of Stigma 8 Symbolic Separation: The Amish and 21st-Century Technologies Part 3 Practices and Technology 9 Receiving Phone Calls During Medical Consultations: The Production of Interactional Space for Technology Use 10 Non-Talking Heads: How Architectures of Digital Copresence Shape Question-Silence-Answer-Sequences in University Teaching 11 The Role of Cursor Movements in a Screen-Based Video Game Interaction 12 Problems with the Digital Public Encounter 13 Smartphone Tooling: Achieving Perception by Positioning a Smartphone for Object Scanning Part 4 Reflections on Interactionist Studies of Technologies 14 Where Next for Interactionist Studies of Technology?