ABSTRACT
All communication is mediated. It is impossible to directly transmit our thoughts or intentions to others without using some sort of medium. The most common medium through which humans communicate is the voice, but we can also communicate through facial expressions and gestures. These forms of communication depend on the human body, and so we call them embodied media. Most of all, writing had a huge impact on language itself, leading over the years to the standardization of languages, as well as to a certain bias among some that written language is somehow superior to spoken language. It has to do with the way media interact with different kinds of texts, with other media, and with the physical world, and the way they help to create different sites of engagement.
