[lbo-talk] The role of social media in the Egyptian uprising

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Sun Feb 13 09:57:37 PST 2011


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



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