Monday, July 20, 2009
Going mobile in meetings
Jenn Davis and Keri Stephens
Keri Stephens, an assistant professor of communications studies, is in the midst of a research project investigating how people in organizations—businesses, nonprofits, schools and others—use cell phones, smart phones, pagers and similar devices.
Her first results show that when people use their devices in meetings they do so because they see other people doing it. Or if others aren’t using the devices, they won’t either.
Going in, Stephens and her co-author Jenn Davis thought that people were texting and
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