As a medium of voices, radio is intimate, confidential, human; a hot medium, in Marshall McLuhan's formulation, that requires participation.
This technique will ensure a more intimate, confidential and safe environment for study participants, which will in turn make them feel more comfortable and remove any pressure, thus encouraging spontaneous responses matching their perceptions of the phenomenon under study.
They said she "played" him by using their intimate relationship to get confidential information.
Those seeking career advice about how to become an emperor of fashion will find little if any useful information in "Lagerfeld Confidential," an intimate portrait of the designer who has ruled the House of Chanel for more than two decades.
The time may come when no one can be sure whether his words are being recorded for use at some future time; when everyone will fear that his most secret thoughts are no longer his own, but belong to the Government; when the most confidential and intimate conversations are always open to eager, prying ears.
The dialect is always confidential, a non-institutional relationship, intimate, a friendly atmosphere.
This person, who was not authorized to speak publicly because board conversations are confidential, said that Mr. O'Neal's intimate knowledge of the financial markets and the impending problems that financial firms were having allowed the company to make smarter decision about lines of credit.
"With confidential informants we get the benefit of intimate knowledge of criminal schemes by criminals, and that is a very effective way to investigate crime," said Daniel J. Castleman, chief of the Investigative Division of the Manhattan district attorney's office.
After her mother died in 1882, Dickinson summed up the relationship in a confidential letter to her Norcross cousins: "We were never intimate Mother and Children while she was our Mother but…when she became our Child, the Affection came".
The right that they found most salient in such intimate encounters appears to be a right to keep their status confidential, to maintain silence.
