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Communication Ecology 2

Page history last edited by Michael J 15 years, 11 months ago

 

 

 Print moves the digital into place based true life.

 

As group-living primates humans communicate with each other and thereby gain evolutionary advantages over other species. We see. We interpret what we see by using the stories in our brain. Then we act, sometimes as individuals, usually in collaboration with others. New ways of communicating lead to new ways of publishing (taken in the sense of publish is to make public) . New ways of publishing are related to new ways of seeing are related to new ways of thinking are related to new patterns of behavior.

 

Digital communications - internet, cell phones, etc - are the most fundamental change in communication tools since the Printing Revolution in the 1500's in Europe. As Elizabeth Eisenstein describes in The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe, once "conversations" could be published in print, knowledge could overcome some limitations of time and space. The resulting explosion of knowledge led to tipping point changes in science, economics, business, religion and everyday life for masses of people.

 

Now, 500 years later, there are new ways to publish and more space and time boundaries are being overcome.

 

 

 

The practice of communication is revealing new behaviors that will probably lead to better understandings of the power of publishing.

 

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