>Rob Danielson wrote,
>
>>The_kinds_ of communications people attempt when background levels
>>are loud are greatly narrowed. The additional energy required for
>>voice projection is stressful. Studies have shown inverse relations
>>between background levels and cordiality and other measurements of
>>civility.
>
>I'm also stressed by talking with excessive reverberation, like on a
>speakerphone, on systems without ambience (some digital phone
>transmission systems steal the silences between words for sending
>other data), and half-duplex (where the other side is cut off when
>you are talking).
>
>-Dan Dugan
Yes! no refuge in virtual space either. Consider "advances" like cell
phone conversation being delayed a couple to four seconds. We tried
to use cell phones for communications during a live radio show last
week. Hilarious, yes, but it was finally _easier_ to yell. Rob D.
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Rob Danielson
Film Department
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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