Abstract: Since 2018, the body as a communicative interface has gradually become a focal concern incommunication studies, bringing the study of gestures into renewed view. This line of inquiry can be traced backto Darwin's theory of evolution; building on this foundation, Mead developed symbolic interactionism, placinggestures at its core. However, by overemphasizing the primacy of symbols and language, Mead failed torecognize the technologized dimension of gestures. From the perspective of embodied phenomenology, VilemFlusser identified the role of technical objects within gestures. In today's era of digitally intelligent media,digital technologies permeate every facet of social media users gestural exchanges. In this process, the bodyretreats, occluded by digital interfaces, and human communication is subsumed into vast digital infrastructures.Although Flusser hoped that apparatuses would enable freer communication among people, it has becomeinereasingly evident that individuals are, to a growing extent, communicating primarily with the apparatusesthemselves.

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