COMM 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ice Bucket Challenge, Black Lives Matter, Voicemail
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Digital comm: electronic media used to send digitally coded signals (ex: digital clock : encoded digitally vs analog clock: ongoing, continuous process) Pervasive: throughout the culture, everybody knows about it and most of people use it. Almost all americans now use internet ( have broadband); more likely to spend money on communication rather than other house applications. Rapidly changing (ex: apple generations: phone, tablet, laptops; social media is changing) Synchronicity- ability to coordinate rapid exchange in real time (back and forth at the same time, rapid re exchange) vs asynchronous. Advantage: there is time to think your thoughts through before communicating it. Talking on phone: real time presence there, no nonverbal comm but still synchronous. Texting, email: can be both, we have a choice whether or not to respond right away. Richness/naturalness- how similar to ftf in terms of natural cues (= nonverbal: facial expressions, body language, voice and tone) Attempt to get richness back: facetime, video calls, snapchat, emojis.
