{"id":308,"date":"2006-01-23T09:41:13","date_gmt":"2006-01-23T13:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/?p=308"},"modified":"2006-01-23T09:41:13","modified_gmt":"2006-01-23T13:41:13","slug":"what-does-call-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/what-does-call-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"What does "call" mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Strange experience last Friday: I was explaining Skype to colleagues in Admissions who want to set up some kind of chat capability in their recruiting efforts, and I stopped making sense when I began to use the word “call.” I made sense to me<\/em>, but I could see that I had lost the other folks in the conversation.<\/p>\n

Finding that I’ve stopped making sense is not so strange, of course. What’s strange is that common verbs don’t usually pose a problem in my conversations. In this case, though, I discovered that “call” now means something different to me than it did even a year ago. When I say “call,” I mean “initiate electronic contact via a medium that emphasizes voice but includes other modes as well.” The modes have begun to blur for me, and I hadn’t even recognized that they had. I do say “text” as a verb when I mean “send an SMS message over my cell phone,” and I can distinguish between chat and VoIP and video and so forth, but the catch is that when I’m in one of those convergent environments, such as a cell phone that does SMS or a Skype that does voice and chat and video, I use the word “call” in ways that are not entirely intelligible to folks who are not used to that environment.<\/p>\n

Memo to self: remember non-convergence is still the rule. Slow down. Sometimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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