While face to face interaction is especially rich in ways to establish
connection (touching, eating together, making eye contact, sharing common
space, informal chitchat), people also establish connection through mediated
communication. Blogs, wikis, instant messaging, email, chat, newsgroups,
listservs, websites, and games are especially interesting forms of human
communication that establish and maintain fields of connection as well
as allow for the exchange of substantive information. M