Media Naturalness Theory predicts processing pressures when communication departs from face-to-face conditions, while recognizing shared schemas and adaptation as compensations. Naturalness concerns the communication process, so lower-naturalness media can still deliver equal or better outcomes when documentation, reflection, access, or asynchronous coordination matters more.
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What these mean
Editorial orientation · Family
Model
In this series, Model names the editorial family primarily used to understand and explain communication: theories, frameworks, effects, traditions, principles and other conceptual resources. It is an umbrella for a route into the field, not a claim that every included object is a predictive model.
Editorial orientation · Category
Theories & Explanatory Models
Explains how or why a communication process works by relating mechanisms, conditions or variables. Its value is an account that can guide inquiry into what produces an outcome, rather than a name for the outcome alone.