Analyzing Internet's Profound Impact on Communication Methods

This essay, titled "How the internet has changed the way of communication", delves into the profound impact of digital technology on modern communication. It examines how the internet has reshaped daily life, focusing on the evolution of communication methods and the benefits of digital technologies, such as convenience and cost-effectiveness. The essay explores the shift from traditional forms of communication to online interactions, considering the effects on social behavior, mental health, and the rise of digital vernacular. It discusses the impact of social media and the challenges of internet addiction, analyzing how digital platforms influence our interactions and attention spans. The essay also highlights the positive aspects of internet use, such as cloud storage and remote work, while addressing the need for healthy emotional control in the digital age. The author investigates the role of Zoom and social media in maintaining communication during the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on education, business and healthcare.

Title: How the internet has changed the way of communication.
Name: Nina Schubert
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Student Number: 21009437
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Table of Contents
Graphic Design.................................................................................................................................................2
1. Introduction..............................................................................................................................................4
2. Chapter 1 –...............................................................................................................................................6
a) Introduction of the Chapter..............................................................................................................6
b) Body of the chapter..........................................................................................................................8
c) Conclusion......................................................................................................................................11
3. Chapter 2 –.............................................................................................................................................11
a) Introduction of the chapter............................................................................................................11
b) Body of the Chapter........................................................................................................................13
c) Conclusion......................................................................................................................................15
4. Chapter 3 –.............................................................................................................................................15
a) Introduction....................................................................................................................................15
b) Body................................................................................................................................................16
c) Conclusion......................................................................................................................................18
5. Discussion...............................................................................................................................................19
6. Conclusion –...........................................................................................................................................23
7. Bibliography............................................................................................................................................27

1. Introduction
This dissertation explores how digital technology has influenced daily life. “There is almost
no area in which digital technology has not impacted me and my family’s life”, said Larry Irving,
one of the earliest forces to identify and seek to narrow the digital divide. My aim is to look at what
the internet has brought to our lives and how have we benefitted from the internet, by looking at a
key feature that is “communication”. How has communication in the digital world altered the way
we choose to interact with one another? As we become more dependent on digital technologies,
how may this affecting us mentally and physically? What should be addressed in order to live
healthy in the digital age? I have been monitoring the daily use of my phone, I have realized that it
would be very difficult to operate my day without it. After researching the symptoms of smartphone
addiction, like low concentration, anxiety, stress, and loneliness, I have come to the realization that
I am addicted to my phone. The internet is an amazing but it’s so much more than this, yet having a
smartphone in constant reach, there seems to be a stronger pull towards checking information and
communication? unnecessarily, I feel constantly connected to something. Having had this
realization, it has drawn me to observe the access? What their behavioral patterns are when using
their devices. How the new ways of communication may be affecting the coming generation. The
degree of orthography may alter as a result of how we learn through technology. Texting has
become a verb and we are developing a new vernacular.1 Our kinesthetic abilities are being
disrupted by text abbreviations and the desire to communicate via email and messaging rather than
face-to-face interactions. 2 As Humans are inherently social beings how have the last couple of
years necessary social change increased the way we depend on digital technology?
Through research published in the journal the journal ‘Communication in the Digital World:
An Evaluation of Orthography of WhatsApp messaging’, Yasir presented an in-depth investigation
1 (An orthography is a set of conventions for writing a language, including norms for writing a
language, norms of spelling, hyphenation, capitalization, word breaks, emphasis, and punctuation)
2 (Kinesthetic is the study of bodily movement and the conscious and unconscious experience of
one's own body motions.)

regarding how life has been changed due to the propagation of social media, and how this
influences our modes of life due to our dependency on internet-based technologies. The dependence
is increasing day by day, in part as it lets us do things more efficiently and faster’. (Hafiz Syed M.
Yasir, 2021). Through observing our attraction to a faster and more vibrant nature of
communication, Yasir investigates the linguistic variation happening to communication by using
social media. The nature of this article brings me to question how communication today may affect
my daughter’s generation, and to consider what the repercussion maybe. I will be interviewing
Mitch Ogugua, a repetition in music information technology who is a repetition in the relationship
between humans and their use of the super highway.
There are indisputable benefits that have come into our lives as a result of the internet.
Chapter one will raise awareness of the positive applications the internet has brought, such as
convenience, cost effectiveness, as well as a greener approach to living today. Cloud storage data
centres are inherently greener than on-premise data centres, allowing companies to reduce their
carbon footprint simply by moving their data to a cloud provider data center, where they will use
fewer resources and optimize their efficiency. This access to digital storage not only allows for an
increase in data volume it also provides security for information.
Chapter two will examine the ways in which communication has changed due to internet
use. How is this affecting us in regards to the declining? demand to communicating in person? The
dissertation relies on both qualitative and quantitative research. Considered WhatsApp data shows a
change in orthography, abbreviations, numerical expression, and reduction of words. The study will
also explore emotions in the digital age and how social media platforms are affecting us, and the
issue of addiction and distraction as mechanisms to deal with real life.

It will consider how internet addiction disorder challenges our attention span. Examining the
term 'always on,' which refers to the various ways in which we are regularly online and how this
might help or impede our productivity as humans. When one of the side effects of excessive
computer use is freneticism, are younger generations being labelled with depression, OCD, and
ADHD? When we walk away from our gadgets, we should review symptoms from internet use such
as anger, agitation, exhaustion, digestive issues, and poor focus. Chapter 3 will look into the various
options for maintaining healthy emotional control in the modern age. The digital environment is
huge. Managing emotions with health issues and eyes effect while operating in, through, and with
digital technologies is becoming increasingly vital.
2. Chapter 1 –
 How has the internet helped us to connect, personally and professionally?
a) Introduction of the Chapter
The invention and sociological absorption of new technology are two aspects of humanity's
evolution. "The most unduly significant technological advancements appear to be those that directly
alter our ways of communication," says social scientist Bagdikian. One simply needs to look at the
psychological and sociological changes that inventions like the radio, television, VCRs and the
Internet have wrought. We are a telecommunications culture in many respects.
Most people access the internet for information, and news and to have a fast and inexpensive
platform to communicate with family, friends, and people who have similar interests. Looking at
the internet from the perspective of access to free communication has been truly ground breaking
and remarkable. The internet has essentially reformulated how we communicate within our daily
lives on all organizational levels. Although the mediums of communication are free and fast, it is
moderately weaning us from our dependency on conventional forms of communication, to regulate
ourselves within in person meetings?
Successful business saves on cost by hiring far off staff and long-distance contractors.
Smartphones, laptop and tablets allow workers to telecommunicate with clients from their own
homes, without having to be there in person. This eradicates the need for business location and

company phone lines. “I save a thousand dollars or more in tariff each month by using remote
mobile applications like GoToMeeting.com to handle conference calls and meetings," says Ryan
Bradley of Web Design Studios. The Internet is highly advantageous to small businesses and
paramount companies in that it saves millions of pounds and dollars on travel, coaching, business
meetings and conventions by administering them online. For instance if deal arrangements are being
made across the globe one would now automatically schedule a zoom or webcam meeting allowing
all parties of the deal to attend.
A communication platform that has helped business financially is undoubtedly the live chat
function. “Many businesses use live chat to expand customer service while saving money. Rather
than calling, emailing, or visiting a company in person, an interested customer or prospect can type
a question or request and instantly connect to a business representative”. 42% of all customers
prefer chat over other communication channels” says Anna Taylor leading provider of customer
engagement solutions, including virtual receptionist and live chat services, for growing businesses.
The use of a human agent that is ready to take part in conversations and ready to help with
customers’ requests 24 hours a day and for the majority of companies it tends to pay itself.
Although these forms of communication have been available to us prior to the last couple of
years, they have been monumental to sustaining work and study life during the covid-19 pandemic.
Schools, businesses, and workplaces were forced to close as a result of the global lockdown, and
millions of individuals were instructed to stay at home for extended periods of time. To prevent the
illness from spreading, public health officials advised limiting social interaction. This changed the
way we worked, learned and connected with each other. There was a way which was already a
habitual occurrence to stay in touch with each other and that was technology.

b) Body of the chapter
 Zoom
Digital teleconferencing with software like zoom and google meet became household names
during the covid-19 pandemic. With business and education transitioning from analog to digital,
video conferencing spaces are a powerfully safe tool in communicating where human interaction
could lead to infection or even death. Zoom was the go to platform in order to continue to work
with tens of thousands of school in order to continue lessons. Allowing pupils to continue to learn
and stay connected with their teachers. Zoom provided weekly training webinars and a zoom
academy for teachers enabling teachers to quickly adapt to a new digital format to deliver their
classes online. Its secure and easy to use architecture has allowed people and parents with limited
digital skills to use it with ease. The ability for the platform to operate in low-bandwidth areas and
can be obtained on any device, which meant that people with poorer internet connection or older
technological devices are not eliminated. Research from article by Charlotte Holloway states how
we share the ways we have helped schools, colleges, universities, and youth organizations across
the country to continue to learn, meet and connect, while also supporting organizations that help
combat loneliness and the mental health crisis. We recognize our responsibility to give back to the
community during these unprecedented times”.
Zoom teamed up with Place2be, a non-profit that focuses on providing mental health care in
schools through one-on-one and group counselling utilizing tried-and-true techniques backed by
research. “Providing a number of licenses free of charge, Zoom supported Place2Be’s ability to
continue its vital work throughout the pandemic”. Mental health mates home partnered with zoom
creating a monthly event hosted the MHM Team. Allowing a variety of people access to a monthly
event focusing on different topics relating to mental health. Giving the opportunity to share, connect
and listen with the MHM community from the comfort of their homes.

People began to receive support in the form of remote one-on-one psychotherapy.
According to Claudia Wallis, "research suggests virtual sessions can be equally effective as in-
person meetings." Leslie Becker-Phelps, a clinical psychologist, visited with patients in a neat
private office in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, carefully watching their behavior and body language.
COVID-19's social distancing requirements changed that. "My office is a 14-foot-by-14-foot area,
and I'm not going to do treatment with masks that conceal something that is so crucial in therapy—
the face," she explains. Her sessions are now conducted through videoconference or, on occasion,
via phone. She says, "I've found that it works." "I was taken aback." Zoom communication became
crucial for people suffering from substance addiction whereby they were able to connect to the
recovery community and attend recovery meetings online. “Without the meeting that became
available online I would have definitely relapsed” Anonymous member of a recovery program. The
therapy received from the recovery communities via Zoom for substance misuse disorder allowed
for sustained sobriety.
 Social media
Communication is at the center of human lives and society since humans are a social species
that relies on it to survive and prosper. Social media has a strong communication source expanding
a sense of community online, and it’s here to stay. Social media has dominated the areas of
business, advertising and educational sector. It had a permanent impact in how we communicate
and has become a fundamental aspect of our lives. Social platforms such as WhatsApp has
reformulated the experience of instant messaging. As long as an internet connection is accessible,
anyone in the globe can be contacted by text. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram all follow
this pattern of communication. As indicated by Oberlin, there will be 3.2 billion online
entertainment clients worldwide in 2019, representing around 42% of the total populace. Likewise,
there are presently around 4.5 billion Internet clients around the world. These numbers show the
developing significance of computerized media in our day to day routines. When using social media
as a tool to facilitate ones business it is a fundamental and resourceful method of action. Social

media allows business people to reach out to others without having to discuss their service or
product as being the initial prerogative of the conversation. The value of having groups and
communities online is that one can connect with people alike and who share common goals, interest
and opinions from a marketing prospective, social media marketing has become a reliable,
consistent and instantaneous features of social media. Social media marketing has made possible for
companies to reach targeted consumers easily, effectively and instantly. Various social networks
direct consumers toward their social media page as opposed to their website. This is allows the
creative director of the company connect with its audience, build the brand and its reputation, share
content easily, reach new audiences and encourage interaction with the brand. The attributes of
social media on a professional level are fruitful. According to (Number 1. Re websites) Nelson
Global Trust in Advertising “nearly
Life in 2022 is a clear progression of human capacity being augmented by digital life. It
sounds comforting to have somebody else solve a problem out for you. But what could be better
than having something work a problem out for you that has no real opinion on the matter? Artificial
intelligence is a process of engineering computers and machines to imitate the problem-solving and
decision-making ability of the human mind. The possibilities available in such an instant fashion
effects our wants and needs. Human activity continues to be manipulated by artificial intelligence
resulting in loss of control over our individual lives. We sacrifice our independence, privacy and
power as automated systems commence to progress to a more complex and pervasive manner. The
ever-growing development of digital tech has its concerns but like with all unknown processes there
can be a solution that can be applied to a certain degree. “15 years ago, the internet was an escape
from the real world. Now, the real world is an escape from the internet.” Recognizing that
prioritizing people over machine by altering systems could better help the human’s race with robot
conundrum. The speed at which the internet is growing is astonishingly. [Expanding human
capacities and abilities must be paramount, in order to increase the human an artificial intelligence
combination in the face of program intelligence.]

c) Conclusion
When considering our automated reliance on new technologies the idea that we are
becoming a “hybrid of machine and organism” living “on the boundary between fact and fiction”:
“We are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism.”. This realistic
concept brings into mind the shift in control that I have over my life. Artificial intelligence now is
key component to molding my human judgment and conduct emotionally and physically, subjecting
me to vulnerability and manipulative digital conduct.
3. Chapter 2 –
 How is the way we communicate in the digital age affecting us? [Kina esthetic,
orthography, addiction]
a) Introduction of the chapter
Although we have discovered groundbreaking opportunities for communication, the way we
communicate has become addictive. Our present day age can be termed as a union of
communication and information. In present times we are capable of acquiring advanced information
and communication technology at a rate like no other times. The device at the forefront of
information and communication technology is the mobile phone. “Mobile phone addiction, as a
mental impairment resulting from modern technology, has come to the attention of psychologists,
sociologists, and scholars of education. Troubled mobile phone use can be accounted a form of
technological addiction”. Addiction to mobile phones has resulted in mental impairment due to
modern technology. Clinicians from Hooper and Zhou, Staffordshire University, concentrated on
106 individuals utilizing phones and viewed that as 16.00% of them had social issues. The review
reasoned that social issues related with wireless use compulsion cause stress. In spite of the
everyday significance and weight of PDAs, investigations have discovered that most of individuals
utilize these gadgets imprudently and this contrarily affects individuals' lives. "Review of research
literature on the subject indicated that excessive use of mobile phones is a form of technology
addiction repetition of data. Results of the study by Hooper and Zhou showed that the rate of mobile
phone use among university students is very high.” Studies deduced compelling connection

between mobile phones and addiction symptoms such as distraction, withdrawal and escape and
depression.
In many ways it is tricky to detach from the mobile phone, when our existence is saturated
thoroughly with digital technology and what seems to be more apparent is that the Internet is
implicitly ‘always on’. Younger generations have experienced the internet as an interregnal aspect
of life since birth, similar to water, oxygen or electricity and taken as a rudimentary condition of
contemporary existence. “To them, technology is like the air.” This generation of children (coined
as the Net Generation) have grasped technology due to the fact that they have grown up with it,
where as adults have had to accommodate it, which like learning a language at a later age one is
faced with a much more difficult process of learning. The younger humans of today have come to
experience technology as just another element of their environment. As Andy Putschoegl is quoted
as saying in Growing up Digital, “I was born using an Apple computer.”
The young children of this generation have learning using the internet is usual making it a
very social approach to learning and culturally fruitful. “It is sometimes argued that the Internet
supports forms of knowledge creation and knowledge consumption that differ greatly from the
epistemological presumptions of formal schooling and mass instruction.” (facebook.com/hamsijutt,
2022) The combination of the human brain and the Internet, alongside its ramifications, has double
significance. We can carry on with a twofold life, a reality, and a virtual life. Facebook's kid
originator, Sean Parker, as of late conceded that informal communities were made to divert us
instead of join us. .

b) Body of the Chapter
 Kinesthetic communication
Sensation correspondence is regularly enhanced by verbal correspondence. Correspondence
in the performing expressions, a completely designed exhibition development, like dance, is viewed
as a creative presentation, the individual on the stage is simply talking, and perhaps standing, no it's
not Movement won't be considered as execution craftsmanship in any capacity. Exceptionally
emotional in the performing expressions, for instance, in dance, there should be sensation
correspondence. While sensation is viewed as a lingo of language, sensation Communication in the
news media will be considered as an alternate vernacular of the media. Sensation language.
Basically sensation correspondence can be perceived such that all people utilize actual language.
Like a sensation tongue the style of articulation utilized by a specific craftsman, regardless of
whether enlightening. Communicator (new anchor) or communicator of sensational articulation
(Artists) may subsequently be gone up against with a specific exact language. Word frameworks
utilized by various societies, like English or French. Like this, the sensation language utilized by the
public authority is an alternate lingo of the public authority. A more sensation language than
specialists use. Additionally, it is unimaginable for any speaker to rehearse the language with
practically no syntax. Sensation correspondence. Notwithstanding the conspicuous physiological
part of coordinated movements.
 Addiction Communication
Enslavement, sicknesses of the mind, results of moral degeneration, absence of will, awful
way of behaving and so on The intricacy in understanding the idea of enslavement is likewise
present in the correspondence pathways in the personalities of addicts, contingent upon the sort of
medication; additionally an individual experiences correspondence and reliance among loved ones.
Addicts experience issues conveying actually and making internal correspondence. Obviously,