Sites like Twitter enable online water-cooler conversations, encouraging people to split their time between their computers and big TV events.
Meanwhile, "kids are so used to having technology that helps them with issues in their lives" that Allman believes the app will help facilitate necessary conversations, encourage them to consider their level of intoxication and remind young people that consent to sex should be affirmatively given and can be revoked at any time.
These results suggest that social media managers should shape the layout and design of social media platforms to support dialogic conversations, encouraging horizontal interactions among users.
FriendFeed conversations encourage discovery of new participants by including anyone regardless of subscription status, and Tracking lets you discover conversations of interest outside of your existing threads.
Conversations encourages collaboration between artists and the synthesis of new ideas.
Art fairs can be boring, and curatorial statements, beyond dull, but at PULSE New York Contemporary Art Fair this year, a new platform called Conversations encourages galleries to engage in a more stimulating and critical form of curation.
In addition, parents need to adopt an open and receptive approach when initiating conversations, encouraging questions from adolescents and responding to these questions.
If more conversation (and not judgmental conversation) encouraged gun-owning parents to reassess the way their guns are stored, how could that be a bad thing?
All participants were given the opportunity to contribute, with follow up comments and conversation encouraged until saturation of ideas and specific descriptions of violations had been achieved.
"The sophisticated and oftentimes complicated compositions on maiolica were intended to spark conversation, encourage sociability and demonstrate erudition".
