The Advantages And Disadvantages Of Visual Communication

Friends from far away are now connected with the use of the Internet, the internet is a wonderful place to stay connected with family and friends, I use it to stay in contact with my friend Ray that’s going to Cal Poly. Nevertheless, sometimes it can be distracting while I’m hanging out with my cousins, but now people communicate through screens and it’s like a custom and people use social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and messaging to do all our “communicating”, but communicating from technology doesn’t show the person 's emotions “Studies show that only 7% of communication is based on the written or verbal word. A whopping 93% is based on nonverbal body language” (Tardanico). The author, Tardanico, experiences that when her daughter attempted suicide, she talked to her before the incident, she seemed happy and she couldn’t notice her body language and, therefore, realize that she had depression. Communicating with, a person can only be from one way and that’s from face to face talking because individuals can notice what’s happening with the person, however using technology to talk to the person.

The advancement of technology has limited the ability to communicate non-verbally. Non-verbal communication is the main channel of communicating as it helps in expressing and interpreting others. It comprises of cues such as facial expressions, postures and gestures. Nowadays, people are using e-mails, texts and social networking sites to interact as well as express themselves. As in “Why Gen-Y Johnny Can’t Read Non-Verbal Cues,” Mark analyzes ,”We live in a culture where young people- outfitted with iPhone and laptop and devoting hours every evening from age 10 onward to messaging of one kind and another- are ever less likely to develop the “silent fluency” that comes from face-to-face interaction” (146). The disadvantage of using technology as a means to communicate with others is people tend to lose fluency in non-verbal cues, as a result misunderstand and offend others. Any number of emoticons used by people cannot measure their depth of their feelings. Non-Verbal aspect of communication should not be replaced by the advancement of

Postmodernism in design is often distinguished by its difference in ideas and concepts to modernism. Graphic design was lead by modernism throughout the 20th century, however postmodernism was not recognized until the 1980s. Once it became known – as complicated as it was – designers saw it as an opportunity to break away from the modern movement to create a new method of visual communication with their work. Although the ‘rules’ of design were broken in postmodern practice (Poyner 2013 p.13), it simply cannot be understood without reference to modernism. While the product of postmodern design may sometimes be comparable to those of modernist works, their inspiration and purposes are different. Modernism in design is often characterized by originality, orderly layouts, dehumanized content and a focus on functionality; however these characteristics are generally rejected by postmodernism with the use of appropriation, deconstructed layouts, emphasis on personal experience and an open-ended interpretation. These features can be seen in highly influential graphic designers such as Neville Brody. Many of Brody’s advertisements, magazines and album cover designs are fragmented with the drastic use of scale, shape and colour. At the time of modernism, this was a very unusual way to approach design. I believe that both modernist and postmodern movements have heavily influenced contemporary graphic design, as practitioners today will often adjust their style to meet the needs of the

Mediated communication channels, especially ones that allow us to directly interact with others such as mobile phones and social networks, rely primarily on language to achieve shared meaning.”(Bevan, J. L., & Sole, K., 2014. Sec.4.4). We need to pay attention to how much computer mediated communication we use not only because it is the number one way to communicate with others who are close and far away from you but also we can tend to use it way to much and walk right into the wall, literally. “According to Online IT Degree (2011), 200 trillion (that's 200,000,000,000,000) text messages were received in America each day during 2011, which is more than the amount of regular ground mail items received in one year.”(Bevan, J. L., & Sole, K., 2014. Sec.4.4).That is a lot of messages and a lot of time using your phone, and not paying attention to your immediate surroundings. Also mediated communication uses very little nonverbal communication, so no emotions or gestures are there to help the reader understand how the person they are communicating with feels. On the other side by using this type of communication it can make the person reading it focus on what is actually being said rather than they body language being used.. There are good and bad things about text messaging and email, computer communication. I have had some bad experiences, and have vowed to use this type of

Through the years technology has been evolving increasingly, from flip phones to smartphones to watches used as phones, type writers to laptops to touch screen laptops and radios to basic televisions to big screens to flat screens and on to smart screens. Growing up, I would often spend time watching many hours of television. As a teenager, I also would begin spending more time on phone; talking, texting and video chatting. In today the world, the internet is highly influential, and is filled with a plethora of information about many things. For a long time, phones and the internet have become very problematic because of the lack of communication. Because technology may have a negative effect, it can lead to an overload from the media, to phones hindering writing skills and online communication can affect face to face communication.

The world has evolved into an “Age of Information” where there are more comprehensive, complex and accessible web of information that can be found in the world than ever has existed before. Technology is emerging at an astounding rate and it is continuously developing new types of entertainment and services that were unthinkable ten years ago. At this age, the process of human interaction has evolved into a sophisticated one, particularly with the existence of current communication tools such as instant text messages and video-calling which is deem as a common and usual means of interaction.

I believe that our world runs on visuals. It is very visually influenced. For example the average person when they get up in the morning. The first thing they do is go on a computer or mobile phone to check their social medias be it Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and general news. Keep up to date and be in the know about everything. This is all visual there is no audio coming out of a radio or video and audio from a television set that’s not needed anymore. It’s all digital with images and blocks of text, which you view on the screen to check the

In the past decades, Visual Imagery and communication have been applied to communicate a person’s feelings toward communication to predictable communication with another individual (Bruder, Dosmukhambetova, Nerb, & Manstead, 2012). The capability of people to express their feelings and nonverbal behaviours in an image assists to coagulate predictable behaviours when communicating with others. Imagery is a very significant aspect of communication, and it has played a crucial role in the development of human beings regarding the origin and development of an individual when he or she is a child to adulthood.

Over the last century, technology has infiltrated almost every aspect of human life. From how we communicate, to how we learn, or even to how we do household chores, technology has influenced it all for most people in American society. In Sherry Turkle’s essay, “How Computers Change the Way we think,” she argues how the technological advancements of the computer have changed the way we think and how it has impacted our daily lives in today’s society (287). A specific aspect the author mentions is the way technology has changed the way we communicate with others. Even though Turkle does not specifically mention texting as a primary form of communication, texting has become one of the most popular types of communication and also carries its own way of thinking and aesthetic. Texting as a way of communication has affected grammar and language used, the speed and efficiency of correspondence, and ability to always be connected to those in one's circle of friends, family, and acquaintances.

diagrams, charts and posters Visual communication, which is based on the use of visual elements, such as drawings, illustrations and electronic images, certainly has made it easy for us to explain, understand and remember/memorize information that is important to us.

Technology strongly impacts the way people communicate. According to Turkle, people don’t communicate face to face often. Most people prefer to use technology to communicate with the world. However, the excessive

This generation has become so involved with the technological world that people are lacking qualities needed to become successful without it. “‘We expect more from technology and less from one another,’ this is because we have relied on our technology for so long, that we develop a relationship that causes us to think it will never lead us astray or tell us any wrong.” It’s becoming so common to meet people through our cell phones, that we are slowly losing the ability to meet new people face to face. “The experience of using and analyzing verbal rhetoric that is gained through a face to face conversation or discussion is something that cannot be taught or acquired through technological means of communication” (Dougherty). When communicating through cell phones, the experience of seeing one’s facial expressions is lost. Along with hearing the tone of voice, and the ability to use these clues to help decipher the true meaning. The lack of face to face conversations is causing people to lose the ability to speak in front of others.

Technology is fast becoming our generation’s source of information. Not only does it provide us with the ability to communicate personally, but with forms such as the internet and the media, it allows ideas to be broadcasted to a large audience. Though the ideas expressed through the media can be straightforward, it is often the subtleties that create the greatest impacts amongst audiences.

In general, communication means of connecting people or places. In business, it is a key function of management, which is an organization cannot operate without communication between level, departments and employees” (Business Dictionary, 2017). Also, ”communication is the act of conveying information for the purpose of creating a shared understanding. It is something that humans do every day. The word communication comes from Latin “communis,” meaning “to share,” and includes verbal, non-verbal and electronic means of human interaction” (Communication Study, 2017). “Scholars who study communication analyze the development of communication skills in humans and theorize about how communication can be made more effective.” (Communication Study, 2017). “Humans convey information through a variety of methods such as speaking, telephones, e-mails, blogs, television, art, hand gestures, facial expressions, body language and even social contexts” (Communication Study, 2017). One of the most form of communication that is being used right now is through text messaging and the cyber world. Communication can occur right away in closed, intimate setting over great periods of time in astronomically immense public forums. However, all forms of communication require the same fundamental elements, a verbalizer or sender of information, a message, and an audience or recipient. The sender and recipient must withal share a prevalent language or designates of understanding each other for communication to be prosperous. A study of communication often examines the development and structure of language including the mathematical languages utilized in computer

ii. However, for many of us, face-to-face communication seems to be a dying art – replaced by text messaging, e-mails, and social media. Human communication and interactions are shaped by available technologies