glen e. p. ropella wrote:
2) reading and responding to a post's gestalt, rather than some fractioned
piece of it,
If the parts of the message are wrong or unclear, then doubt should be
cast upon the gestalt as well.
and 3) reading what's being written with a coherent _model_
of the writer. And these things, dominant in face-2-face communication,
are difficult and expensive for online comm.
The writer is at fault, and it may well be with malicious intent, if in
general she expects readers to form a coherent model of her. It is
necessary for a reader to form a model of what is written and its
relevant context. (If the text is an autobiography, then she can expect
the reader to model the writer.)
Marcus
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