1) The execution of an action, or something accomplished 2) The fullfillment of a claim, promise, request 3) The action or representing a character in a play, to a public representation or exhibition 4) The manner of reacting to stimuli 5) The linguistic behaviour of an individual — Merriam-Webster Dictionary

#1 In the global theater of Connesione Remota, one of the first Italian experiments of Webcam Theatre, which was simultaneously staged and broadcasted live on the Web from the Pecci Museum in Prato (2001), the spectators in “remote connection” could watch the performance from the Web, meet each other on the network, chat with each other, dialogue and write in real time with the same performer: “These experiments confirmed my intuition that it is possible to make a theater with/for the network while taking into account the sense of committees that are often activated on the Internet more convincingly than in many other material places.” — Anna Maria Monteverdi, The technothatre of Giacomo Verde, 2020
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Social media demands a never-ending show—and we are the performers. Always signed in, we keep circling back for more, until the #DigitalDetox app switches us off or we’re summoned to enter different realms. — Geert Lovink, Sad by Design, 2019