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Multicommunicating

Why Should People Care?
Multicommunicating is a common practice where people engage in multiple conversations at any one time. It is facilitated by the emerging technologies that support asynchronous and synchronous interaction.

History
Norms have changed as people have access to different technological options.

What is it?
Multicommunicating is the act of participating in more than one conversation at any one time. Examples of multicommunicating include talking on the telephone while answering an email, enagaging in four instant messages at the same time, texting a friend while participating in a large lecture class. Multicommunicating specifically refers to engaging with multiple participants in some form of dialogue or conversation. In this way, multicommunicating is distinguished from multimedia multitasking.