COMM 3601 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Communication, Digital Revolution, Johannes Gutenberg

• School: Fordham University
• Department: Communication and Media Studies
• Course: COMM 3601
• Professor: Nicholas Leshi

Document Summary

Physical communication: facial expressions, hand gestures, body movement. Verbal communciation: symbolic sounds, spoken languages and dialects. Tone tends to be less formal and closer to everyday speech than is the general tone of print writing. Blogs can be and frequently are edited, with corrections being made after a post s initial publication. Most blogs allow comments, readers can ask questions or insert commentary. Blogs appear to be closer to the reciprocity of oral communication. Writing allowed things not possible in oral traditions. Oral communication has the potential for instant two-way dialogue. Online writing has brought dialogue back to written communication. New kinds of literacy are developing as the general population is acquiring new skills an the ability both to read and navigate the web and to publish its own words, images, videos, blogs, and other content. New literacies have been called network literacy, multi-literacies, digital literacy, and secondary literacy.