notes on material transparency as a form of hyperpersonal communication

1. From Wikipedia:  Compared to ordinary face-to-face situations, a hyperpersonal message sender has a greater ability to strategically develop and edit self-presentation, enabling a selective and optimized presentation of oneself to others.

2. Material Transparency: an ethic for writers based on full disclosure of material connections between the writer and subject.

3. Linguistically, material transparency is in itself an application of hyperpersonal communication . It distinguishes itself by subverting the appearance of  a ‘strategically develop[ed] and edit[ed] self-presentation’. This is done via explicit acknowledgment of the writer’s material connections to the subject as well as his or her  influences,  intentions, motivations, and audience.