The research field of CSCL is ethnomethodologically informed, or at least ethnomethodologically influenced. This has not always been the case, although there is a logic to this growing tendency.Ethnomethodology (EM) is an approach to conducting research in the human sciences founded by Harold Garfinkel (1917-2011) and largely defined by his Studies in Ethnomethodology (Garfinkel 1967; Garfinkel & Rawls 2012).1 EM addresses the 'methods' that people within a given linguistic community use to establish and maintain intersubjective understanding. Since CSCL can be characterized as being focused on joint meaning making,2 the analysis of prevalent meaning-making methods seems particularly relevant to the methodological quandaries of CSCL research.
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