In an email sent out to the school grad, staff, and faculty populations, the current contract negotiations, and the threat of a strike were addressed. The graduate contact negotiations have been technically public record but many graduate student’s nor the union have shared weekly information until now. This has lead to a separation of knowns by parties occupying physical space together for many hours of the day. This has called to my attention the way Massmail is best way for admin to contact all parties on campus, but the infrastructure for other parties to send massmail takes much more labor and coordination. Lines of internet communication are there for limited even between individuals such as faculty, graduate students, and undergrad students who will interact in person on a daily basis.
This communication breakdown is not a recent phenomena but is exaggerated do to the contrasting speeds of person-to-person conversation and internet one-way communication. The internet communication resembles the authority of the news (one-way communication of facts). Its a complicated form of communication.
