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BY Joy Waddington
Experiencing Presence Some Thoughts I had a strange experience when I was reading issue 3 of TILT Magazine. Not just the usual “oh that’s interesting”, but a cascade of related responses, each one adding to the previous one as I read through the pieces. The authors in question and the phrases in their pieces were: Paul Silverman – Navigating Conflicts by Email: “Email communicates words and words only” Jean-Anne Sutherland – Reel Culture: “What is ‘real’ to one individual or group may indeed appear crazy to another’ Ralph Friesen – A Day in the Life of an Online Therapist: Recognising ‘presence’ of each other in their written words: “…and in this experience of mutual presence – which sometimes seems to create a Presence with a capital ‘p’…”
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