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Search results for "texting safety train accidents" (21)
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Managing Separation Anxiety through communication
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The role of private communication in accidents
The two accidents we analyse...
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Analysing accidents : when an air traffic controller chats with a friend
On the 8th of...
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Analysing accidents : When a train engineer sends 57 texts on duty
On September the 12...
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The democratisation of intimacy
Workplace, school, battlefield, foreign country, were until recently all settings in which people were removed for short or long periods of time from their closest ties, family or friends. Clocking in, meant leaving behind the family and ...
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58% of mobile users in UK do one call a day only
The data, from a survey by comparison site uSwitch of over 12,000 people, showed that over 60 billion texts are being sent per month, with around 67 sent per person on average. 58 per cent of mobile phone users...
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15$ fine to students using their cellphone in school
No calls, no texting, no surfing the Web. If they slip up and are caught, they better be prepared to pay the price: confiscation of their cell phone until they pay a $15 fine. After the second offense, their parent must come in to pay the $15. School...
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Continuous contact
Ron is in his late thirties, and recently had a baby with his second wife. He also has a teenage son from his previous marriage. He is the sole employee of a shop and has quite a lot of empty moments in his day waiting for customers. Ron talks to and...
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Being a refugee
Sam is 25 and arrived in Switzerland 5 years ago from the Middle East. How he came to Switzerland precisely is still not clear to him, he wanted to go to Germany where there is a big community from his area and he had a few cousins working there...
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Calling from the factory floor
Greg is bulgarian and has been living in Manchester for 3 years, he followed his older brothers and a sister who had moved to the UK in the late nineties. He recently moved into a flat with his girlfriend who also comes from Bu...
