I don't think gesture can carry over truthfully to the internet world. The pretense of gesture (emoticons :] D:< and "dancing kirbys"
<( '_' )>) but there is no way of knowing if the person you are chatting with or whose blog you are reading actually expressed those emotions. I frequently type "lol" and ":D" when I am not laughing at all nor smiling--it is the idea of gesture that is carried over into the blogs and chats online.
My hands, my eyebrows, my mouth, my posture, my voice intonation and so on are not carried over from face to face situations to the internet, only my intent is. As noted in lecture only 7% of our communication comes from the words we say and that is all chats and blogs are: words.
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