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The following chapter will explicate the context of technological mediation. I will illustrate how communication technologies have changed our everyday communication to explain how it came to be that to “not be available or to not have an operational phone, is in a small way shirking our social responsibility“ (Ling, 2018, p. 14). As this thesis aims to describe communication content via MIMA group chats, I will first define interpersonal communication and introduce the archetypical act of face-to-face (in the following FTF) communication. I will then illustrate how the (technological) mediation of communication has allowed us to overcome the constraints of space and time inherent to FTF encounters and then lead over to the implications of the introduction of telephones, first landline phones, and later mobile communication devices. The concept of technological affordances will be introduced as it helps to explain those …