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Early conversation analytic studies often drew on data derived from technologically-mediated interaction: talk on the telephone. Telephone conversation brought particular methodological benefits for the conversation analytic enterprise but it also raised a new analytical question: since the terms of interaction were altered (e.g., there is no mutual visual access), the organisation of interaction itself might manifest systematic alterations. If so, what is the nature of those alterations and how are they related to the technological medium? Such a question involves considering the relationship between technology, mediation, and the practices of talk-in-interaction. Recent work has brought the concept of affordances into play in order to make more explicit, and more systematic, the terms on which we might explore the relationship between technological mediation and the course of social interaction (Hutchby, 2001). This paper will outline and illustrate the argument about technological affordances and the practices of talk-in-interaction using empirical data involving mobile communications devices. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]