Don't have time to think of these things...

While I understand the concepts of communication, mediate, and computers, it was helpful to describe communication in terms of multifunctional and multimodal. But I don't believe that once in the mode of a transactional communication process, the person(s) engaged will necessarily think of things like the purpose of the engagement (multifunctional), or that what they say may be taken out of context (multimodal).