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When Video Calls Become Empty Presence Rituals

I video call my long-distance partner every night but we both just do other things on our computers and barely talk.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Technology enables the maintenance of connection rituals that may lack the substance they're meant to preserve.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Confucian virtue ethics and technology?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.