From the Archives: High-context communications in a low-context virtual world

Funny how things we knew in 2014 somehow surprised so many people when the pandemic hit and sent us all behind screens. This piece by starts off reminding us of the differences between high context and low context cultures, then explores the implications in an online world. While some of the tech references are dated, the rest of the piece still holds, as they say, water!

sketch with three circles, large, medium and small with arrows going up through the middle from lower levels of transactional trust to higher levels of relational trust.

High-context communications in a low-context virtual world.