Face-to-screen relations are the characteristics of

Face-to-screen relations are characteristic of information societies.

In such societies much interaction is mediated by screens, computers, phones and networked devices, rather than by direct face-to-face presence.

The rise of digital information and communication technologies makes the screen the ordinary interface for work, learning and social contact.

Agricultural societies rest on land and direct personal, community-based contact, so they are not defined by screen-mediated relations.

Industrial societies are organised around factory production and mass manufacture, not around the informational, networked screen life.

Mass societies are marked by large audiences receiving one-way mass media, which is different from the interactive face-to-screen pattern of the information age.