Is Body-to-Body Communication Still the Prototype

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ID11372511
AuthorsLeopoldina Fortunati (0000-0001-9691-6870, University of Udine, corresponding author)
Year2005
Volume21
Issue1
Pages53-61
Publication date2005-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Information Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0197-2243 • E-ISSN: 1087-6537
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01972240590895919
OpenAlexW1990886077
LanguageEN
Citations received16
References cited48

Body-to-body communication has widely been accepted as the prototype for mediated communication. This article interrogates the assumption that there is a dividing line between body-to-body and mediated communication. It shows that body-to-body communication intermingles profoundly with forms of mediated communication, to the point that it becomes very difficult to tell them apart. Starting from this framework, it analyzes the great imitative capacity of mediated communication with regard to body-to-body communication, and analyzes how this similarity is destined to grow in time. It concludes that because of these changes, body-to-body communication is an increasingly evanescent prototype

Body posture · Communications system · Epistemology · Human–computer interaction · Physical body · Point (geometry · Telecommunications · Communication · Computer Science · Digital Communication and Language · Medicine · Psychology · Public Relations and Crisis Communication · Team Dynamics and Performance

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