Comments on: Backchannel Resources

By: hp mini 210

hp mini 210 — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 00:31:26 +0000

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By: Nancy White

Nancy White — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 05:06:28 +0000

Joe, I’m reading this at 5:30 am in Rome and thinking, FABULOUS POST – everyone should read it. You are weaving together so many threads on the issue and as I read I kept nodding and nodding in recognition. As I begin a week of F2F facilitation, with a group that does not (as far as I know) use the back channel during a F2F meeting (maybe there is some poetic justice in the fact that the room’s promised wifi is not working so far), I also wonder about the complicated dynamics of back channel to in room F2F work meetings (not conferences.) (wow, lots of parenthesis in my response this morning!)

Offline backchannel has been a mostly implicit part of our lives. We just couldn’t see/hear it for the most part. Can you imagine looking back and being able to see/hear it? I”m not sure I’m strong enough.

More later after I return home. But a huge thanks for the article.

By: Joe McCarthy

Joe McCarthy — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:12:08 +0000

Hi Nancy,

I just published a blog post about The Dark Side of Digital Backchannels in Shared Physical Spaces (http://bit.ly/dark-side-of-twitter) yesterday, spanning some experiences over the past 5 years or so, and came across your post in looking for information related to a comment someone else posted.

I am embarrassed to realize how much of the conversation I’d been missing out on – the only intersection in our sets was Liz Lawley – but as my own post was already [overly?] long, I simply inserted a reference to your extensive lists of great resources.

Thanks for compiling these lists, and I’m glad to have at least stumbled upon these resources late (vs. not at all). I’m sure I’ll be circling back to some of these themes again.

Joe.

By: Gumption

Gumption — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:02:22 +0000

The Dark Side of Digital Backchannels in Shared Physical Spaces…

Recently, I’ve been disturbed to read about some significant frontchannel disturbances arising through the use of Twitter backchannels to heckle speakers at conferences. Having finished off my last blog with an example of the beneficial ways that Twit…

By: steve

steve — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:45:58 +0000

I think of backchannels either in the linguistic sense – utterances like “yah”, “uh-huh” etc that indicate the listener is participating or the level of agreement – or the political connotation – an unofficial communication in the background that can preserve deniability.

These can take interesting flavors in digital form – I first encountered them academically in my HCI department where a new member was an expert in analyzing the backchannel communications that went on in MUDS.

We built some prototypes for analyzing digital backchannel where the mainchannel (or forechannel) was audio or even video .. sort of what everyone does IM anyway.

It is a remarkably rich area. I remember a neat talk by Wendy Kellogg on the subject