"Although oral and print cultures differ greatly, the bond between physical place and social place was common to both of them."
"As a result of electronically mediated interactions, the definition of situations and of behaviors is no longer determined by physical location."
"Levinson's fascinating description of media history shows how an early form of a medium first gives up aspects of the 'real world' in order to overcome a spatial or temporal limitation and how later forms of the medium then recapture aspects of natural communication."
"how much social behavior changes when people are able to communicate 'as if' they were in the same place when they are, in fact, in different places?"