« When Data Makes You Say, "So What?" | Main | Abbot Kinney - The best contemporary architecture walk in America? »

December 31, 2004

What is "Communication"?

In the New York times article on the internet and socializing, we're told that "57 percent of Internet use was devoted to communications like e-mail, instant messaging and chat rooms, and 43 percent for other activities including Web browsing, shopping and game playing."

And it made me think that a fairly arbitrary distinction is being made here in the use of the word "communication." If I post to my blog or Flickr, or view other people's posts or photos, am I not engaged in "communication"?

Posted by peterme at December 31, 2004 07:19 AM

Comments

I think communication is everything that comes from someone and goes to someone else. This can be emotion, words, and just a glance.

Posted by: caleidoscopio at January 2, 2005 05:48 AM

Communication is a double-sided contact

Posted by: Pol at December 13, 2005 01:53 PM

Your site is amaizing. Can I share some resources with you? tramadol hcl

Posted by: ronnie at April 4, 2006 04:12 PM