To the extent that our digital devices and services offer us varying forms of mediated communication and interaction which mimic and alter our experiences of human presence, and to the extent that our human vulnerabilities usually sweep us into preferring modes of encounter that serve our personal desires and weaknesses in the moment—regardless of whatever long-term or greater good might be in store—we have to ask: What is the general effect of this digital ecology on how we (de-)value our embodied presence? And how does it shape our imaginations about what the full range of human engagement
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