What is the point of a (group) meeting? What can be accomplished through co-presence that can’t be accomplished online or through dyadic interaction?
Good question! Maybe also: At which stages of team collaboration are which types of meetings important (e.g. virtual vs. face-to-face)?
In several papers on virtual teamwork that I have read, the consensus seems to be that face-to-face is most important at the very start, to establish a basis of trust/sense/norms etc.
And what shapes the dynamics that make co-presence productive and when does it result in fragmentation or separation?
and, if virtual is the only option, how do we change practice to make that work?
What’s the difference between virtual and physical meetings?
Good questions but what does that mean exactly? In terms of interaction? in terms of outcomes?
The embodied, nonverbal elements of interaction come into play when studying physical meetings.
What about virtual proxies of nonverbal behavior such as emoticons?
How to study and compare
the difference in terms of effectively achieving objectives interests me
also, a specific issue is the hybridity of meetings: using several modes at the same time
I guess virtual team research shows already quite clearly, that “virtuality” plays only a minor role in natural environments. There is no point in comparing…
Do you have a source I could read?
How to understand the social, formal and political aspects of meetings
normal!
That’s not a question
What is the role of informal meetings? What are informal meetings?
Meetings are status symbols
What is this referring to specifically? Roles in meetings as symbols of social status? Or attending the meeting itself as a staus symbol?
meetings as signaling meaning within a shared context, the effect is magnified in technology-mediated meetings: e.g., audio-conferencing meetings are not important => multi-tasking participants
What does the semantic field for meeting terms look like in English and some other selected languages? How do these terms relate to culturally conditioned “folk beliefs”?
What is the relevance of fun at meetings?
Are there forms of play evident in meetings?
There is actually quite an interesting paper on this topic: Lehmann-Willenbrock, N., & Allen, J. A. (2014). How fun are your meetings? Investigating the relationship between humor patterns in team interactions and team performance. Journal of Applied Psychology, 99, 1278-1287.