The Relationship Between Technology And Human Communication

In her article “Type me How You Feel: Quasi-Nonverbal Cues in Computer-Mediated Communication,” Carter explores the implications associated with nonverbal perceptions in type written communication. In today’s age, interaction comes in many forms; as societies progress technologically, so does the exchange of language through text based messages also referred to as Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC). Non-verbal communication is interpersonal communication through visual, body gestures, and facial expressions. Carter highlights that CMC is limited in regards to nonverbal cues. Typewritten messages, compared to face-to-face interaction (FtF), create a lack of trust, remove spontaneity in interaction, generate ambiguity, and cause a time barrier between the individuals communicating. Although Carter pinpointed some key implications to the proliferation of CMC, she failed to identify the key advantages found in typewritten communication. Social Information Processing Theory (SIP), founded by Joseph Walther in 1992, offers an understanding of how people communicating through text develop their interpersonal relationships, given that the parties constantly communicate. By applying SIP to Carter’s points of analysis, Carter’s concerns with CMC are answered and a more clear understanding of the potential to create interpersonal relationships via CMC emerges, regardless of the limitations associated with the lack of non-verbal cues.

From the beginning when humans developed the written word, novel forms of technology in all of its forms, have been hailed as potential saviors of our society or as the harbinger of its downfall. Modern communication methods such as texting, tweeting, IM’ing, and other forms of digital interaction have been credited as a new wave in learning techniques or as the end of verbal exchange and intelligence in today’s youth. Various authors have offered their opinions either for or against nonverbal digital dialog backed by differing amounts of personal and structured research. In the essay “No Need to Call”, originally published in the book Alone Together author Sherry Turkle, program director at MIT, Turkle discusses how new forms of digital communication may be robbing society of the ability and art of vocal communication in person and on the telephone. Turkle offers in her essay, examples of how individuals avoid the use of telephone technology and the reasoning behind their choices. Michaela Cullington graduated with a Master’s Degree in speech and language pathology offers in her essay, “Does Texting Affect Writing” that the abbreviated way we write in our texts has had little effect on our ability to create a formal piece of intelligent writing despite public fears that it will be the downfall of the written word. Digital communication methods can harbor many other pitfalls that must be navigated by today’s society. Our society’s love/hate

Additionally, acronyms are found in every social media platform and conversations. By shortening terms such as “On my way” to “OMW” parallel the efforts in 1984. Even emoticons and replacing words such as “you” to “u” are popular in our culture. Although our language has diminished, it is not to prevent any type of crime, rather it is lessening our thought process. Bossche states “a whole generation of youth is being dumbed down by their aversion to reading anything of substance and their addiction to digital substance via social media” (Bossche) Another researcher claims that “with the sense of urgency and fast pace of the minimal messages it is less likely for individuals to review their texts before hitting send” (Beale).

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

The words that we use in everyday technology, influence the words we use. Since we use smartphones, computers, and other technology so much, the language that we use has evolve to fit the words used on social media. Since the language we use to communicate is more informal than formal language used in essays and research papers, personal communication is expected to advance very quickly.

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

efficient, they say”. (Turkle 272) People try to keep things short and sweet. Social technology provides people way to achieve this expectation. While helps people create distances with others and show perfect status, social technology acts as haven, making people feel safe. People edit and reorganize their words, retouch their selfies to be perfect to avoid revealing their weaknesses and defects. People are so afraid of revealing too much so they are more willing to lose the real part of

As a child born into a world coloured by electronics and filled with Web 2.0 discourse, social media has painted my worldview. It is difficult to imagine my world without social media and constant “oversharing” as this has been a significant aspect of my life for as long as I can remember. Since receiving my first cell phone in the sixth grade, my mother has always been on my speed-dial and is one of the contacts with whom I am always in constant communication. After dramatically increasing the amount of information I sent to my mother through text messaging, I gained a greater understanding of the amount that oversharing has become naturalized in modern society. Through an emic analysis, I was able to understand the culture of oversharing by actively participating in this culture. An emic analysis is an effective method for studying the culture of oversharing, as being part of the culture highlights the impacts of the culture. In modern-day society, oversharing is taking place as a function of instant messaging through many different forms, such as texting, Facebook, and Snapchat. The participants in these practices have created a new culture of online communities and an entirely new lexicon, including emojis and acronyms. As well as the advantages brought by new technology, any new media will have inherent consequences. With texting, people have started oversharing through “sexting”, sending explicit messages or photographs. Social media platforms also have consequences of

Over the past ten to fifteen years, there has been a major change in the way people communicate to each other due to the development of the internet. Because of this, there has been a massive effect on the amount of socialising between friends and family; using technology in online social messaging websites such as Bebo, MSN, Facebook and many more. Through these social messaging websites, more and more people can interact with their friends and family all over the world. An expert professor David Crystal has supported the idea of web-based messages and disagrees with the view that slang and contractions leads to a lower English standard of language. Although this is a benefit to most people, it has been abused by some people by overusing

Technological advances have undoubtedly changed the way that humans communicate with each other, but is it leading the old fashioned method of face-to-face communication towards deterioration? Popularity in the usage of cyber communication has most definitely expanded, coming with its own advantages and disadvantages. The argument that cyber communication is possibly replacing face-to-face communication is argued, while many fail to realize that face-to-face communication has its own disadvantages as well. Both these methods of communication function in conjunction with one another, consequently, one cannot replace the other. Jon Ronson is able to provide strong examples of the disadvantages of cyber communication in his novel So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, while failing to note that there are also definite advantages to cyber communication, as well as positive and negative aspects to face-to-face communication.

From the beginning of human’s existence on earth, communication has been a crucial aspect of human life. Communication allows humans to express their ideas or feelings to others which gives humans the ability to connect to each other at an interpersonal level. Technology is a product of human communication through expression of ideas that has lead technology to be the rise of a new form of communication. Technology is changing the way humans connect by moving towards more virtual interactions between people rather than face-to-face. The essay ‘Limits of Friendship’ written by Maria Konnikova speaks on how technology takes away from human face-to-face connection, yet as technology continues to innovate this essay will disprove her thesis. An essay Paumgarten wrote “We Are a Camera” interrelates to disproving Konnikova’s thesis by showing how POV camera’s allow us to connect our lives and express our idea’s like never before. Myself growing up as technology continues to innovate and change I too agree with Paumgarten’s writings seeing how technology has changed my own abilities to connect by expanding the possibilities to interact with other humans. Technology has expanded the way people connect by providing limitless and easy accessible content from across the earth.

The most essential part of everyday life is communication, this allows people to express information to each other. Within today’s world, technology has changed the communication techniques with new advances that have evolved. This statement is true within the personal lives of the people and at their workplaces. The new technology within the criminal justice system has modified the communication capabilities with specializes databases. The Automated Fingerprint Identification System, also know has the AFIS will discuss with the Facial Recognition and both databases will be compared. The positive and negative effect of both databases will explored and the use of both databases and

Maria Furukawa states that “Advancements, particularly in handheld devices, such as smartphones, iPads, and smart-watches, have made our lives more efficient by making everything we need accessible at the tap of a screen or a swipe to the left. Essentially, technology has taken the “hard work” of talking to someone in person, of physically reading a book and of using our minds to do some mental math and replaced it with a device. I have noticed that technology, ironically, disconnects us from living in the present moment. Even though we try our hardest to communicate what we mean over text, there is still a possibility for miscommunication or misinterpretation of what was written. If instead, a conversation was held in person, facial expressions, changes in tone, and hand gestures are some ways that miscommunication can be avoided.” (Furukawa 2017) People can create a virtual world by using these devices with the increase of screen time and internet usage. They are subjected to advertisements, unrealistic standards, online bullying and constant access to negative information. In this virtual world, there are numerous sites for social networking. In this case, people do not need to physically interact with one another and can espouse any persona to their present need.

Language evolves along us as we grow up. I grew up talking Cantonese with my parents. At elementary school, I took ESL classes. With my brothers, I spoke Pidgin with them. As technology grew exponentially, language became a part of technology’s close companion. Social media has changed the way people have spoken in the past with new acronyms and new words, and connected people left behind in the social world. While people focus on the negative effects of social media, technology is helpful for communication in many aspects.

Technology is said to be causing us to communicate less with one another. Technology is advancing maybe we just need to advance as well. We are finding alternative ways to communicate more effectively with each other and that we are not just “anti-social screen gazers”. The issue upon us is that people think we are becoming so involved in our technology that it isn’t allowing us to make real deep meaningful friendships with one another.