Mediated Communication-

Is not a space, it Is a set of tools people use to connect, each with meanings that depend on the others and which can only be understood as deeply embedded in and influenced by the daily realities of embodied life.

Basically this is the use of any technological device to communicate. This can be through email, phone call, or video messaging. In the article Baym tries to explain that mediated communication isn’t that different from face-to-face interaction. Yes there may be a loss of some or all sensory signals but it has the ability to be just as effective as face-to-face communication. One danger people use to dispel mediated communication is that people can easily falsify their identity on devices. For better words, people can catfish others with technological devices. Baym argues that yes there are people who make or use pseudo-identities but this is not the norm, it is usually a rare occurrence.

I’m not sure how rare of a case it is with series such as Catfishing appearing on T.V. The premise of the show is to find the real identity of a person online. Most of the cases on the show turns out to be catfishes or false identities.

This parody is making fun of the new phenomenon. The two people meet online and talks to each other on the phone but have never met. They finally meet and the woman learns that it is a real person except that he lied about his eyes. Meaning he falsified some information about himself. In 2012 CNN released an article stating that 1 in 4 people falsify information on their Facebook to protect their identities. That was ten percent more than the year prior to that. These stats show that people do lie using technological devices but not to the extreme of creating a whole new identity.