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communication
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The process of creating and exchanging meaning through symbolic interaction.
Communication
Communication in the form of spoken or written words.
Verbal Communication
Speech is the expression of, or the ability to express thoughts and feelings by articuate
sounds
Speech
Something that represents or stands for something else.
Symbol
Around 30,000 BC murals were painted on cave walls that told stories of battles, hunts, and
culture.
Cave Drawings
Around 10,000 BC images were created by removing part of a rocl surface by incising, pecking,
carving, and abrading.
Petrolyphs
9,000 BC saw the developement of pictures that represent an object or an idea.
Pictograms
A written character that symbolizes the idea of a thing without indicating the sounds used to
say it. e,g,. numerals and chinise characters.
Ideogram
A sequence of letters, words, or symbols marked on paper or other surface. It appeared
around2700 BC.
Writing
A set of letters or symbols in a fixed order, it appeared around 1700 BC.
Alphabet
Johann Gutenburg invented an actual printing press in 1450.
The Printing Press
In 1714 an Englishman, Henry Mill, received the first patent for a typewriter.
Typewriter
1831 Joseph Henry invents the first electric telegraph.
Telegraph
Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in Boston in 1876.
Telephone
1951, The first commercially available, “mass produced” electronic computer entered the
market.
Computer
In 1973 a global computer network emerged, providing a variety of information and
communication facilities.
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