Which is better for a given deliberation? To meet in person or to meet remotely through telepresence?
Advantages of telepresence:
- can meet over long distances (i.e. thousands of miles)
- even with short distances, it may be more convenient for everyone (for instance, for various people to all meet somewhere in a certain place in a city, each participant still has significant travel time)
- it is possible to have an asynchronous meeting
- Some feel that video helps most when people are from other cultures
- When you have a mirror or a camera on you, you think about yourself (rather than assimilate to the group identity)
- Typical assumption: face-to-face is the gold standard (some disagree with that assumption)
- See "[Beyond Being There]"
See also OnlineVsMeetInPerson.
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