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  • Are you encouraging or discouraging online communication?

    When I was studying interpersonal communication at Ithaca College in the early 90s, one of the concepts we looked at was whether your environment encouraged or discouraged communication.  The terms I learned were: sociopetal (environment encourages communication) and sociofugal (environment discourages communication.) Determining if a physical environment encourages or discourages communication is a pretty straightforward…