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Potter 2010) and “directive trajectories” (Goodwin 2006), often characte-
rised by resistance and negotiation, are designed and constrained both by the
embodied moves of the parents and by the architecture of the house.
In this chapter I focus on directives designing mobile actions too, but in a
technologically mediated context in which coordination between the partici-
pants has to be achieved here and now, in a rapidly changing context, where
the conditions and consequences for the immediate action are constantly
being updated. In this mobile context, imperatives are the form that is most
frequently used by the participants. I first focus on the sequential organi-
sation of these actions, and then come back to the social and gender ...