Media itself is the method of communication by nature. The communication is indispensable for mankind because it has been a primitive nature of mankind. In the earlier times, mankind communicated with mere gestures. Spoken language was used ever after...
Media itself is the method of communication by nature. The communication is indispensable for mankind because it has been a primitive nature of mankind. In the earlier times, mankind communicated with mere gestures. Spoken language was used ever after, followed by writing and printing media. Then man began to communicate each other with the electronic media such as radios and televisions. The evolution of media could be interpreted as the changes of communication phases. After digital media has appeared, mankind faced a new communication era that they have never been able to experience before.
Therefore, communication was born right after the appearance of mankind and has been going through human history. It, also, is widely known that it achieved great changes and developments ever since. The terminology, ‘digital’ has become a socio-cultural phenomenon that characterizes human lifestyle in the 21st century. No individual can live without the social environment where many components are being digitalized. Digital technology has produced fundamental changes to human life than anything else in history. Thus, digital media that stem from digital technology followed naturally.
Internet has, in fact, the leading role of the new communication phases. Internet has made it possible to overcome the communication barriers of the existing media and has given mankind the unlimited world of communication. Mankind has become able to make a virtual communication that was thought to be impossible in the real world due to the limits of time and space. Internet also improves the importance of the bi-way communication. In addition, internet enables users to be in a fantastic stage which has no border between producers and consumers respectively.
Writing and printing media appeals only to the visual organ, and acoustic media needs only the hearing organ. However, internet makes use of the multiple senses of human being by utilizing the multimedia, and it works for restoring the human sense.
Moreover, internet is making the environment where the face-to-face communication is, more likely, to be possible than any other present communication media. The various aspect of internet communications newly broadens and widens the human thought, life and behavior, and makes people find a new world.