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Managing Separation Anxiety through communication
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average length of loca call is 2mns in USA
According to the CTIA's semi annual wireless industry survey, in the USA the average length of a local call is2minutes and 3 seconds. It has gon...
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The role of private communication in accidents
The two accidents we analyse...
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Analysing accidents : when an air traffic controller chats with a friend
On the 8th of...
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Analysing accidents : When a train engineer sends 57 texts on duty
On September the 12...
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The democratisation of intimacy
Workplace, school, battlefield, foreign country, were until recently all settings in which people were removed for short or long periods of time from their closest ties, family or friends. Clocking in, meant leaving behind the family and ...
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When voice is preferred to text (rarely)
Although text seems to be preferred in most interactions essentially because of its asynchronous nature, there are topics and discussions that can only be done orally and synchronously. When there is a complex issue, a certain level of disagree...
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Continuous contact
Ron is in his late thirties, and recently had a baby with his second wife. He also has a teenage son from his previous marriage. He is the sole employee of a shop and has quite a lot of empty moments in his day waiting for customers. Ron talks to and...
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The Author
Stefana Broadbent ...
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Keeping close to the core
A good proportion of adults in Europe, are using at least 4 channels of communication a day, fix and mobile phone, SMS, and email. With all these channels, devices, services, a user contacts on average the same 5 to 10 people 80...
