On Sun, 13 Feb 2011, Julio Huato wrote:
> I didn't mean to imply that face to face is indistinct from other
> interaction media. Or that the distinction does not matter. I think
> there's enough in my silly post earlier this morning to remove that
> impression. What I said, perhaps not clearly enough, is that face to
> face is also, necessarily, a mediated form of interaction. In this
> sense, it is just like Internet communication, or any other form of
> interaction for that matter. Inter-subjective contact is always and
> everywhere mediated by physical objects.
Um, no. Face to face is immediate. It's just our bodies.
If you say nothing is immediate, then mediate doesn't mean anything.
Michael