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Jonathan Potter @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I don’t want to say it’s a great paper…

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Galina Bolden @galinabolden.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ever wonder why say what you are not saying? A new #EMCA paper by the @rucalteam.bsky.social! @alexahepburn.bsky.social @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social @aleksandrshirokov.bsky.social @kaiskinner.bsky.social et al www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Jonathan Potter @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

There we were, absurdly high above Manhattan, trying to raise money while Gloria Steinem gave two powerful publishing men hell about advertisers and journalism. It seemed a fundraising disaster. It wasn’t. Bennack later became a major donor to the Chair. That was Gloria. 8/8

Final congratulations on work well done!

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Jonathan Potter @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Instead, she harangued Frank about a story on the exploitation of Colombian coffee workers which, as I remember it, had been pulled after pressure from advertisers. This went on for some time. It was quite intense. And wonderful. 7/8

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Jonathan Potter @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

We talked about English socks, I think to put me at my ease, and Gloria and the two men exchanged memories of the old magazine world. We were there to raise money. I assumed at some point we would get around to doing that. Gloria was having none of it. 6/8

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Jonathan Potter @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

There was cream carpet of a thickness I had never encountered, and an extraordinary view across Manhattan and Central Park. We were met by Frank Bennack Jr., Hearst’s Executive Vice Chairman and former CEO, and Gil Maurer, former president of Hearst Magazines. 5/8

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Jonathan Potter @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The foyer of Hearst Tower on Eighth Avenue is a bit like Newark Departures: crazy busy, security everywhere. But someone immediately appeared: “Gloria. And you must be Jonathan.” We were whisked into a private elevator and up to the 44th floor. 4/8

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Jonathan Potter @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I was, I confess, completely star-struck. I met Gloria in her New York apartment, which someone should surely preserve as it is, with its extraordinary memorabilia. But the episode I remember most was when Gloria and I went to Hearst to ask for money. 3/8

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Jonathan Potter @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The Chair was the idea of the brilliant Alison Bernstein, who had come to Rutgers from the Ford Foundation. I worked with Alison and a steering committee including Geraldine Laybourne and Subha Barry. Then Alison died in June 2016, leaving me as the Rutgers lead. 2/8

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Jonathan Potter @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Gloria Steinem died today. One memory of her. When I arrived at Rutgers from Loughborough in 2015, I immediately became involved in the campaign to fund the Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture, and Feminist Studies. 1/8

Gloria being give a commemorative cartoon by Jonathan

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Sam Wetherell @samwetherell.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I’ll be on Radio 4 next week talking about the stupidity of charter cities and the barbarism of libertarian world making www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Sounds - Rethink, Rethink... the future of cities

Could charter cities be the key to urban prosperity and opportunity?

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Jonathan Potter @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Rigorous, empirical, and grounded in fifty years of cumulative work in conversation analysis and discursive psychology.

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Jonathan Potter @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

The book covers crying and upset, laughter, and anger, using intensive analysis of real cases. There's a full methods chapter for researchers interested to do this kind of work themselves, and a theoretical chapter mapping the relationship to existing frameworks.

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Jonathan Potter @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Kenneth Gergen calls it "an entirely new landscape of understanding and inquiry into the emotions" Moving emotional study out of the laboratory and into real-life settings where emotion's interdependent functioning in ongoing relationships can finally be examined.

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Jonathan Potter @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Emotionography works with video and audio recordings of real interaction: child protection helplines, family mealtimes, therapy sessions, political interviews. Transcribed in enough detail to catch what participants themselves attend to. This is emotion in the wild, not the lab.

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Jonathan Potter @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

What you won't find: emotion as it actually unfolds, in real conversation, in real settings. That gap is what this book fills. We feel that no course on emotion will be complete without it.

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Jonathan Potter @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Open any handbook of emotion research. You'll find basic emotion theory, appraisal theory, behavioural ecology. Experiments, scales, surveys, maybe intensive interviews. Impressive coverage.

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Jonathan Potter @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Hansun Zhang Waring wrote: Potter and Hepburn had me at Chapter 1—with quotable gems that kept me smiling and my highlighter running. You will never experience, study, and conceptualize emotions the same way again. 😊

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Jonathan Potter @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

David Silverman said: 70 years ago, C. Wright Mills showed that the ascription of motives was an interactional process. Now Potter and Hepburn have done the same for emotions. 😊

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Jonathan Potter @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

They're here! Emotionography: Theory, Research and Practice is published today. A book Alexa Hepburn and I have been building toward for thirty years. Here's why we think it matters. 🧵 Available now from APA with links to Kindle and Vital Source - www.apa.org/pubs/books/e...

A colourful pile of Potter and Hepburn Emotionography books.

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Jonathan Potter @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Thank you! It is actually available next week! Copies arrived an hour ago! Some lovely comments on it from brilliant people.

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LANSI @lansi2024.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

best book cover ever 🌈but wait till you see what’s inside🤗 @iscaupdates.bsky.social @alexahepburn.bsky.social @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social

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Jonathan Potter @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

There is, of course, an intriguing circularity in using experiments to find out if there are experimental (demand) effects.

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Jonathan Potter @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

If you know students or colleagues working on emotion who might be curious about recordings-based research, do pass this along.

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Jonathan Potter @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Arlie Russell Hochschild called emotionography: “a magnifying glass… to see, in breathtaking detail, the expression of emotion as it occurs in situations both alarming and real.”

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Jonathan Potter @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

We study emotion using recordings of natural interaction (audio/video from real settings), analysed with conversation analysis and discursive psychology to show how emotion is displayed, oriented to, and managed moment-to-moment.

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Jonathan Potter @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Out shortly with APA books: Emotionography: Theory, Research, and Practice (Potter & Hepburn). @alexahepburn.bsky.social www.apa.org/pubs/books/e...

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Jonathan Potter @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Proofs are corrected - its is off to the printers! Emotionography brings emotion back into social life, by revealing how our most intimate expressions are shared, structured, and interactionally achieved. Published soon www.apa.org/pubs/books/emotionography @alexahepburn.bsky.social

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Loughborough CA Day started out wa::y back in 2007 as a local, friendly get-together of like-minded interaction analysts. It's now a global, friendly get-together of like-minded interaction analysts. People fly or dial in from all over the world. Still great fun. #EMCA

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Jonathan Potter @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

The cover has arrived! Emotionography! Emotions studied as they’re done in interaction - displayed, taken up, used. @alexahepburn.bsky.social

Book cover Emotionography. Subtitle: Theory, Research and Practice. Authors Jonathan Potter and Alexa Hepburn. Publisher APA. Abstract graphic motif; clean typographic layout.

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Jonathan Potter @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

And now decompressing after an excellent workshop (and a cheeky visit to Stockholm, of course). Love it that @profsalwiggins.bsky.social managed to sneak in! DP royalty! @alexahepburn.bsky.social

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Jonathan Potter @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Off to Sweden (again!) with @alexahepburn.bsky.social to join Katerina Eriksson Barajas and colleagues in Linköping for two days teaching Discursive Psychology: data sessions, analysis, and lively discussion. Excited to reconnect with old friends and new ideas. #discursivepsychology #EMCA

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Laura Jenkins @laalaajenkins.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

🚨NEW SPECIAL SECTION Clinical risk discussions: an interactional perspective - 7 novel papers (6 medical specialties) - 1 report on CA training for high-stakes risk communication - 1 expert clinical discussant doi.org/10.1016/j.pe... #emca @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social @alexahepburn.bsky.social

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Laura Jenkins @laalaajenkins.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

⚠️NEW "Communicating anaphylaxis risk in pediatric allergy consultations" Adrenaline prescription decisions are complex. Making reasoning explicit opens up decision-making to caregivers. doi.org/10.1016/j.pe... @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social @alexahepburn.bsky.social @colinmacdougall.bsky.social

Screenshot of Patient Education and Counseling article titled: Communicating anaphylaxis risk in pediatric allergy consultations: A conversation analytic study. Available here in text form: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2025.109284

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Jonathan Potter @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Reposting as still relevant. And pondering May Mailman’s extraordinary attack on universities on behalf of Trump captured in the NYT. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/o...

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Opinion | The Grand Strategy Behind Trump’s Crackdown on Academia

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Jonathan Potter @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

#9 If we want universities to defend society against pseudoscience & conspiracy (ever more needed), they need sustained support rather than caricatured takedowns.

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Jonathan Potter @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

#8 Lazy claims about squeamishness or bias obscure the real bind: govt frameworks + financial erosion + political hostility particularly from the right. That is what’s crippling UK universities.

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Jonathan Potter @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

#7 It’s glib to sneer at “VR caves” or gender theory syllabi. The real crisis is a system trying to do more with less while navigating hostile policy & public misunderstanding.

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