Mountains, Molehills and Mediation: Exploring the Affordances, the Drawbacks and the Facilitation of Presence Via Face-to-Face Communication and Texting

This thesis explores how social and corporeal presence is facilitated via texting and faceto-face communication.Face-to-face communication is considered to be the preferred means of communication among many scholars due to its sensorial, co-present, humanbased means of exchanging physical and social presence.While face-to-face communication is an undeniable form of live presence, it shares certain contextual drawbacks with other means of interaction.Texting is but another form of communication that facilitates social presence via the disembodied machine rather than the physical being itself.With the popularity of texting as a means of social interaction in the 21 st century, it is important to acknowledge that despite its appeal, texting bears both negative and positive attributes.Drawing upon previous theoretical and statistical research from scholars within the fields of communication, psychology, philosophy, media studies, sociology and linguistics, the findings of this research suggest that from one angle talking face-to-face is a primordial and essential means of communicating for humans in order to acquire social skills and too much dependence on texting can lead to lower emotional receptiveness.Additionally, both young and old find using new media to communicate overwhelming.From an oppositional angle studies suggest that texting enables overseas workers to feel empowered.Texting is also deemed to be of particular benefit to those in the deaf community, for it is an inclusive, non-discriminatory means of interaction.Ultimately, this thesis illustrates how one is the ruler of one's own actions.It is the individual who is responsible for understanding the contextual strengths and weaknesses of each respective means of communication.communication.The overall scope of my research is to study how the human in communication is maintained through texting and face-to-face communication.In both instances, messages are external expressions of internal thoughts, which cannot be articulated perfectly.Ultimately, my intention is to discuss the nature of my research through a theoretical approach in which I use secondary sources.The reason for this approach is because it is broad and enables me to look at material through a theoretical lens and an empirical lens.Conducting my research through this methodological approach provided me with a number of contemporary and classic theories, studies and philosophies.These in-depth works granted me the opportunity to produce a body of work rich in theory and data ranging from sociology, psychology and media studies.Through the interconnected nature of my thesis, I was able to meet the objective of my research by virtue of exploring more than one approach to the facilitation of presence and how the human in communication is maintained.The depth of this approach to collecting secondary sources of empirical and theoretical scholarship is reminiscent of the objective of the thesis itself, which is to take two opposing entities and study how they contrast and how they correlate.Similarly, even though theoretical literary analysis and empirical research are different forms of methodological approaches, they both work to identify answers to my research question.Through this method of analysis, I learned from a number of angles, all of which suggest

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