Abstract:The paper explores the social interaction that takes place during the initial phases of videoconferences. The
focus is on the problem of absent participants, which is often considered a reason for delaying the official beginning of the
meeting. One of the resources that the participants have is to reach the absent participant by cellphone. We observed a recurrent
pattern of action whereby one of the participants disengages from the video meeting to reach the missing person by phone. This
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