Our guest post on the Research on Language and Social Interaction blog.

One of the fastest-growing areas of CA-inspired research is in the field of computer-mediated communication – everything from human-machine interaction through to synchronous and asynchronous social media.  In this very welcome guest blog, Jo Meredith, Trena Paulus, Wyke Stommel and David Giles send in a report on the 3^rdInternational Symposium for the Micro-analysis Of Online Data: Online communication, discourse and context, a significant meeting of cutting edge research.