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Alexandra Ferreira, Maria Raposo, Bruno Zanette |Index
Index
Introduction
The World of Global Communication
The Internet
The pros of using Internet in today’s society
The cons of using the Internet in today’s society
Examples of Websites
The Telephone
Examples of Telephones and mobile phones
Press, another mean of communication...... 10
Conclusion
Introduction
This work is about the world’s global communication, like the Internet, the press, telephony (which developed to radio), telephone, mobile phone, television and so on.
The Internet includes the interlinked hypertext documents of the World Wide Web (WWW) and the infrastructure to support electronic mail. It has also enabled or accelerated new forms of human interactions through instant messaging, Internet forums, and social networking.
The press includes television, newspaper, radio, book and other print publishing, such as tabloids, magazines and quality papers.
The Internet is the most pervasive and recent of all global communication solutions.
Communication is very important because people need it to know what’s happening in the world, like news concerning to society, politics, health, sports, cultural news involving music, films, art and others.
The World of Global Communication
We live in a world of global communication. That has a number of alternate communication infrastructures in place, many of which are global in nature. While the Internet is the most pervasive and recent of all global communication solutions, other older systems such as international mail and telephony have also played a huge role in bringing the world together, like the press [magazines, newspapers, radio, television, (...)].
The very nature of global communication is one of the driving factors behind globalisation, and as the technology that drives these changes gets smaller and more efficient – international communication gets easier and faster.
The path from traditional postage to global wireless connectivity has been long, however recent developments have shown that it is exponential in nature. With traditional paper based postage, it takes a long time for a message to get through to its destination, and this was how the international communication worked for a long time. This situation evolved the first telegraphy and telephony systems, which were developed and put to use. The introduction of the telephone (apart from being of vital importance in its own right) also led to developments in what was to become the biggest international communication infrastructures the world has ever seen – the Internet.
The Internet is a global network of interconnected computers, which is also becoming integrated into mobile phones, digital assistants and mobile gaming devices. The Internet is a vital part of the communication’s solutions for many individuals and business enterprises, as it allows for practically instantaneous and inexpensive communication all over the world. Internet infrastructure began on standard telephony wires, although today it’s more likely to be accessed via dedicated cables, satellites and wireless networks.
The growth of wireless communication networks for mobile phones and the Internet are the latest evolutionary steps in global communication; besides, Wi-Fi, mobile broadband Internet, and mobile phones are now common in modern industrialised society. With so many developments happening so fast around the technology that surrounds international communications, it’s hard to predict exactly what will occur in the future.However, current trends are leading us towards to a future faster and smaller wireless communication.
The Internet
The Internet is the most visited mean of information in the world. It is a global system of interconnected computer networks used to serve billions of users worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists in millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks, of local to global scope, that are linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries a vast range of information resources and services, such as the interlinked hypertext documents of the World Wide Web (WWW) and the infrastructure to support electronic mail.
Most traditional communications media including telephone, music, film, and television are reshaped or redefined by the Internet, giving birth to new services such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and IPTV. Newspaper, book and other print publishing are adapting to Web site technology, or are reshaped into blogging and web feeds. The Internet has enabled or accelerated new forms of human interactions through instant messaging, Internet forums, and social networking.
The origins of the Internet reach back to the research of the 1960s, commissioned by the United States government in collaboration with private commercials.
The pros of using Internet in today’s society:
- You can have freedom to view whatever content you want because have much information that you can access quicker;
- When you’re bored, it comes in handy for keeping you occupied;
- It helps you to find much information that you want for school works, research, things that you like, etc.
- You can keep in contact with many people over the websites and MSN in all the world;
- You can do shopping on the Internet vs. going to the stores;
- You can access to the Internet anywhere;
- You can collaborate in many projects with people far away from you;
- Companies can work with others and their colleagues anywhere;
- The information was democratized;
- It’s ecologic: lower consumes of resources like paper and plastic.
The cons of using the Internet in today’s society:
- The internet is not controlled and is very insecure if you don’t know how to manage it;
- It has many illegalities like stealing, pornography, pedophilia, abuse trough blackmailing, spam, (...);
- It can be dangerous for children and naive people;
- It can become addictive for some people;
- If you register in web sites and don’t read the informations, you can be mistaken and it can be very expensive, so you mustn’t reveal your personal informations like phone number, address and passwords;
- Some bad people can hack into your computer and stealormodify something;
- dispersion of information;
- If you are careless, everybody can see your informations.
Examples of Websites
The Telephone
The telephone, often colloquially referred to as a phone, is a telecommunications device that transmits and receives sound (most commonly the human voice), text messages and others. Telephone’s most basic function is to allow two or more people separated by large distances to talk to one another. It is one of the most common appliances in the world, and has long been considered indispensable to businesses, households and governments. The word "telephone" has been adapted to many languages and is widely recognized around the world.
The early history of the telephone became and still remains a confusing morass of claims and counterclaims, which were not clarified by the large number of lawsuits that hoped to resolve the patent claims of many individuals and commercial competitors.
The evolution of the telephone took us to the great inventions ever: the mobile phone.
Amobile phoneis anelectronic deviceused to make phone callsacross a wide geographic area. Mobile phones are different fromcordless telephones, which only offer telephone service within a limited range of a fixed land line, for example within a home or an office.
A mobile phone can dial and receive phone calls to and from thepublic telephone networkwhich includes other mobile andfixed line phones across the world.
Examples of Telephones and Mobile phones
Press, another Mean of Communication
Another mean of communication is the press (tabloids, quality papers and magazines).
Quality papers cover serious topics such as political, financial and foreign news, are written in formal English, their articles may be longer but the range of vocabulary is greater and they publish few photos.
Tabloids are popular newspapers that have a smaller newspaper format. Although, they have big headings. They focuses on local interest stories and entertainment, tends to emphasize sensational crime stories, have gossip columns and scandalous news mainly about the personal life of celebrities; they also write news about sports stores and they publish lots of pictures.
There are magazines about science and technology, history, international news, economy, politics, business, finance, technology, science, arts, animals, fashion, beauty, entertainment and lifestyle.
Conclusion
Through this work we conclude that: the Internet, the press, telephony (which developed to radio), telephone, mobile phone and television are some of the means of the world’s global communication; the Internet includes the interlinked hypertext documents of the World Wide Web (WWW) and the infrastructure to support electronic mail. It has also enabled or accelerated new forms of human interactions through instant messaging, Internet forums, and social networking; the press includes television, newspaper, radio, book and other print publishing, such as tabloids, magazines and quality papers; the Internet is the most pervasive and recent of all global communication solutions and has pros and cons; communication is very important due to its power of interaction with people, since it spreads what’s happening in the world, like news concerning to society, politics, health, sports, cultural news involving music, films, art and others.
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