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Communication History

Professional Communications

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What is Communication?

CommunicationThe process of creating and exchanging meaning through symbolic interaction.

Verbal communicationCommunication in the form of spoken or written words.

Nonverbal communicationCommunication in the form of gestures, eye contact, or tone of voice.


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Non Verbal: Sound

Drums were one way to send signals to neighboring tribes and groups. Different drumming patterns would tell them of concerns and events they needed to know.


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Non Verbal:Smoke Signals

Smoke signals were another way to send messages to people who were not close enough to use words.


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BringHome

Milk

Verbal Storytelling

Before the written word, storytelling was a way for families and communities to pass on information.


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Communication History


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TimelineSpeech

Cave Drawings

Petroglyphs

Pictograms

Speech

Speech is the expression of, or the ability to express thoughts and feelings by articulate sounds.

Human communication was revolutionized by speech.


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Symbols Symbol - Something that

represents or stands for something else

The imperfection of speech resulted in the creation of new forms of communication, improving both the range at which people could communicate and the longevity of the information.


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Cave Drawings

Around 30,000 BC murals were painted on cave walls that told stories of battles, hunts, and culture.


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Petroglyphs

Around 10,000 BC images were created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, pecking, carving, and abrading.


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Pictograms

9,000 BC saw the development of pictures that represent an object or an idea.


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Ideogram

A written character that symbolizes the idea of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it, e.g., numerals and Chinese characters.


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Writing

a sequence of letters, words, or symbols marked on paper or other surface

appeared around 2700 BC


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Alphabeta set of letters or symbols in a fixed order

used to represent the basic sounds of a language

in particular, the set of letters from A to Z

1700 BC


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The Printing Press Johann Gutenburg invented an actual printing

press in 1450 Gutenburg was the first to use a press to print

the Bible, the oldest full length volume printed.

From Gutenburg's press in

Mainz, Germany, printing

spread all over Europe.


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Typewriter

In 1714 an Englishman, Henry Mill, received the first patent for a typewriter.


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Telegraph

1831 Joseph Henry invents the first electric telegraph. 1832 Samuel Morse invents Morse Code.


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Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in Boston in 1876. One hundred twenty years later there are over 360 million telephone numbers, and that figure grows each year.

Telephone


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Computer

1951, The first commercially available, “mass produced” electronic computer entered the market

The computer was manufactured in the United States.


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Online SourcesIn 1973 a global computer network emerged, providing a variety of information and communication facilities. These interconnected networks use standardized communication protocols.


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Emails

Short for “electronic mail,” email is a means of sending messages online. Email also allows you to send files as attachments to email messages.


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Online calling

2003 - Software that allows you to call people on their computers or phones.


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