Tag Archives: communication

The Limitations of Protocol

Erik van Mastrigt | 31 October 2011, 3:11 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , ,

Internet is often praised for allowing people to speak up and publish freely, rather than opinions are suppressed by higher powers. On the one hand, everyone has the ability to start a blog and publish whatever they like. On the other hand, not all publishing platforms are that free as some think internet is. Every user has to agree with…

Social Network Abstinence

Juliana Paiva | 04 October 2011, 12:09 am | 2 comments | tags: , , , , ,

In this postmodern age, McLuhan’s thoughts about medium as an extension of ourselves seems more and more accurate. However, if the medium is us and we are the medium, how we can detach from it?

Nowadays, social media is one of the main examples of how integrated we can be. With every information just…

E-readers, will they substitute educators and librarians?

ibtisam omer | 20 October 2010, 3:08 am | tags: , , , , , , , ,

The heavy task of lugging stacks of books might be seeing the end of its era, for with the expanding digitalisation of textual content, EBook readers and Edocuments ( PDF files, Word Doc, podcasts etc.) are introducing a more flexible and subtle way of enjoying your reading. These different forms of digitalisation all fall under the…

Educate Me in 140 Characters or Less

Ronen Shay | 11 October 2010, 6:22 pm | tags: , , , , , , , , ,

When packing your bag for school, make sure you have your lunch, books, and favorite Twitter client. The social network is making great strides as an academic tool, as more and more educators realize the benefit of fast, transparent messages that are updated in real time. Twitter allows teachers to announce changes in class schedules, homework, or study tips in…

Forums are dead… long live Twitter? – Music artists in a new age of connectivity

Hans Terpstra | 11 October 2010, 12:38 am | tags: , , , , , , ,

If there’s one element of the Web 1.0 era that seems to have survived the age of social networking of today, it must be forums. But for how long? In the world of music, professional musicians seem to have been hesitant of participating on forums due to the lack of user standards. The abundance of swearing, low level of profession,…

Aphoristic message (overload?) by a CMC world

Sander Leegwater | 08 October 2009, 10:08 pm | tags: , , , ,

Communication is as old as humans (or humanoids) itself, from a grunt, a shout to a simple gesture – we have always had the ability to convey messages to others around us – whether we’re correctly understood is a whole other matter. ‘Aphorisms’ (the ability to make short, powerful and easy to remember messages) “have been around…

Twitter and the Rise of Impersonal Communication

Charlotte van Brakel | 07 October 2009, 12:18 am | 2 comments | tags: , ,

Before the rise of twitter there already existed older -digital- communication devices that shared the same idea: short and fast communication between people. Those were mainly writing, faxing, emailing, chatting and later sms text messaging. In the case of chatting these messages formed whole conversations while short text messages (sms) were at the beginning mostly sent to…

Does Twitter promote writing?

Sjoerd Tuinema | 05 October 2009, 1:37 am | 2 comments | tags: , , , , , ,

Over the years Twitter has gradually developed, meanwhile its practices have also changed drastically. The contemporary celebrities took their places, the early adopters started exploring the potentials while lobbying about it and ultimately the platform rapidly started to expand in terms of functionality. Although the range of features on the site stayed very loyal to its core functions, there has…

American Podcasting at New Vision

Ali Balunywa | 21 May 2009, 10:16 am | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

 

Rebecca Jane Harshbarger is an American journalist freelancing at the New Vision newspaper. The New Vision Group is the biggest multimedia house in Uganda. It publishes 8 newspapers and 5 magazines. It owns 3 FM radio stations and a television network. (www.newvision.co.ug)

Rebecca has a Bachelors degree

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Twitter and the Aphoristic Society

| 14 October 2008, 11:11 am | tags: , , , , , ,

Twitter has been denounced by some as a useless waste of time. However, the short and snappy, “aphoristic” communication tool may also be a symptom of how people like to communicate today. The author argues that we are probably seeing a culture of more communication in less time, where people communicate “aphoristically”, i.e. try to communicate a lot in as little words as possible.