‘Communication’ Archives
Nonverbal Communication vs Verbal Communication
Nonverbal Communication vs Verbal Communication It is convenient to distinguish between nonverbal and verbal communication, just as it is to distinguish between decoding and encoding processes, but such distinctions can be misleading. COMMUNICATION is a system, simultaneously engaging encoding and decoding processes. In social settings, we only [...]
The Last Mile
The Last Mile In the telecommunications industry, “the last mile” refers to the connections and equipment that actually bring content to users’ homes and businesses. One source of Cisco’s continued growth in the 2000 decade is the way it has addressed the consumer sector through strategic acquisitions. In 2003, Cisco acquired Linksys, [...]
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Governmental unit that oversees the communications industry. Its chairperson and members are appointed by the president, subject to congressional approval. The Commission began with the Communications Act of 1934, which reorganized the previous Federal Radio Commission. Although the importance and [...]
Telecommunications
Telecommunications The history of two-way communication is embedded in a series of much deeper histories: technology, imperialism, and the rise of the nation state, to name but a few. These, in turn, are embedded in a discourse that returns theory to a central place in non-Marxist histories. Several theoretical enterprises emerging from the [...]
Computers and the Internet
Computers and the Internet While film, radio, and television all had dramatic effects on communications in the twentieth century, all three were still ‘‘one-way’’ media that lacked any sort of interactive capabilities. The advent of the computer revolution and in particular the Internet changed this situation in the late twentieth [...]
HDMI
HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) is an interface standard used for audiovisual equipment such as high-definition television and home theater systems. With 19 wires wrapped in a single cable that resembles a USB wire, HDMI is able to carry a bandwidth of 5 Gbps (gigabits per second). This is [...]
Internet TV
Internet TV Internet TV most often refers to television shows that are available to watch on the Internet via downloading or streaming video. In broader terms, Internet TV may also refer to movies, viral videos, clips, and other video content available on the Internet. Although YouTube is the Internet’s most popular video site, it is not [...]
3G Technology
The Advantages of 3G Technology 3G (Third Generation) is the latest wireless technology. It is also known as UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System), an improvement over 2G (Second Generation) providing wireless access to the data and information to the users from any where and anytime. It is the latest mobile technology and in fact [...]
The iPhone
The iPhone The iPhone is a line of Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphones designed and marketed by Apple Inc., and originally released in 2007. An iPhone functions as a camera phone (also including text messaging and visual voicemail), a portable media player (equivalent to a video iPod), and an Internet client (with e-mail, web [...]
Communication Through Satellite
Communication Through Satellite High above the Earth there are communications satellites. Rockets take them high into the sky, usually about 22,300 miles, or 35,900 kilometers, above Earth's surface. Like the moon, Earth's only natural satellite, communications satellites travel in a great circle (an orbit) around our planet. Most of these [...]
