THE PLAYLIST Music is secondary to conversation.
But beyond this squaring-up between old and new, something more subtle, sophisticated, and ultimately more profound seems to be happening: our content is spawning a "secondary market" in conversations and connections we have no control over.
When I go to someone's house, the food is secondary to the conversation and the rare treat of seeing friends.
But for those who wake up to embrace their phone before their loved ones, for those who treat real-world conversations of secondary importance to incoming texts and emails, and for those who spend foggy hours on Instagram and Twitter and Facebook when having only been in search of a momentary distraction, Moments may be a step in the right direction.
Note that this model exemplifies an extension of the conversation to secondary indicators, such as Sea_temp and Sea_state, in relation to which observations of above ambient temperature or of bubbling are presumed to be evidence of elevated (submarine) gas output.
Given those responses, the best approach may be bumping into an attractive stranger on the way to the bar, the buffet, anywhere, as if the conversation were secondary.
So we at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health are hanging out a "Help Wanted" sign, looking to the business, nonprofit, government, faith-based, and philanthropic sectors along with other academic institutions to shift the domestic violence conversation from secondary intervention to preventive action.
"From out visits to primary and secondary schools and from direct conversations with children, we found that most school aged children use the internet and know about their rights, but many still do not recognize the different between rights and obligations, nor do they understand when rights have been violated," said Ms. Vaska Bajramovska-Mustafa, Deputy Ombudsperson.
At ready to wear, when the spectacle of the event becomes secondary to pushing the fashion conversation forward, Dior may find itself in more of a hurry to appoint a new designer.
To which Josh Miller responded, saying that the startup wants to differentiate by focusing on "the interaction between participants, not the interaction between participants and viewers," in an effort to flip the dynamic around, as most publishing platforms end up promoting monologues, where "the conversation is always secondary".
Together with Freeman, the Dolphins' secondary controlled the game and the conversation.
