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• Board members say that something is missing in the online board meeting, and express this
in terms of companionship, but this is balanced with the advantages of not having to travel
and an acceptance that the work gets done.
• At the in-person board meeting there is a sense of 'place' and 'social gathering' which
provides purpose. This is missing in the online context.
• In the online meeting the capacity of the boardroom table to organise participants is replaced
by an uncertain algorithm which disperses rather than gathers together those present.
• Board practices are enacted within the power relations embodied in the semiotic resources
of socialising. These resources are materially different in the in-person and the online setting
and support different enactments of governing.
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