Just Bru

Managed to chat a little bit with Lilia last night about lack of "bandwidth" during communications through text only media like chat/IM, and the fact that the mind goes looking to "fill in the gaps" by taking bits and pieces from archetypes.
Already discussed the basis of this theory some time ago, in reference to continuous partial attention and again about full-time intimate communities.
It's been really interesting to discover that someone else reached similar conclusions from different starting points / ways...
This time realized that this kind of communication pushes the interaction towards having a "best picture"; that is where both parties are "looking" at an interpolation of different archetypes that matches the behaviour pattern played by who's on the other side of the screen.
Lack of para-verbal and non-verbal channels makes verbal interface overloaded: the mind needs an answer, quickly, and goes for this kind of identikit, best guessing from semantic bits extracted from the conversation.
By far the nemesis of the concept of natural interaction :)
Moreover, line after line, recontestualization of the digital language will be more and more complete, letting small changes in language patterns lead to huge recoil in perceived interaction. Much like a puppet.

Although, observed "out of band" signals that, little by little, help in shaping the image of the other party toward a better fitting mask (alter ego)... thus shifting away from the pure archetypical paradigm and toward a more "exception" filled, realistic character.
work still in progress...

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