MNG81001 Assessment 1: Impact of Technology on Communication

This report presents an analysis of three articles discussing the impact of technology on corporate communication. The first article emphasizes technology's importance in enhancing corporate communication. The second article highlights the positive impacts of technology, such as improved staff communication and access to information, while also noting the negative impact of increased distraction. The third article reinforces the idea that technology can significantly improve business communications if used correctly, but misuse can negatively affect productivity. All three articles conclude that technology plays a crucial role in modern corporate communication, and businesses should strategically implement it to maximize benefits and minimize drawbacks.

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Management Communication
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Article Analysis One
Title of Article: How Technology has influenced the Field of Corporate
Communication.
Author(s): Paul A. Argenti
Publication Information: This article was published by Sage Publications in 2006. The
publication (article) is published to present new information about corporate
communication and also show the effects of technology on the field of corporate
communication.
What is the thesis of this article? Technology is of great importance in the field of
corporate communication and has enhanced the operations in the field in a great way.
What is the blueprint of this article? The article is well planned with various sub-
sections (subtitles) discussing various aspects of technology in the field of corporate
communication. The author has also used some meaningful images in the article to
reinforce some of the most important points he’s trying to convey through the article.
What recommendations (if any) are provided? Organizations should embrace the use
of technology in the communications of their organizations and this will consequently
lead to the overall improvement of the performance of the organizations (Argenti,
2006, p.369).
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What conclusions are drawn? Technology helps to improve corporate communication
in organizations.
What implications (if any) are provided? When used as required, technology can help
to improve the communication sector and the other sectors of the corporate
organizations in a great way.
What quote will you use from this article? Technology is of great importance in our
daily lives and more so in organizations where it helps to improve the performance of
organizations by improving corporate communication which in organizations.
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Article Analysis Two
Title of Article: Top 3 Impacts of Technology on Business Communication
Author(s): Big Think Edge
Publication Information: This article was published by Big Think Edge Organization
in 2017 to discuss some of the major impacts of technology on corporate
communication or communication in organizations.
What is the thesis of this article? Technology has an enormous impact on not only the
communication sector of organizations but also in many other aspects of
organizations.
What is the blueprint of this article? The article is organized into three major headings
where each of the headings discusses one of the three major impacts of technology on
business communication.
What recommendations (if any) are provided? _______________________________
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What conclusions are drawn? Technology has great impacts on business
communication where some of the impacts are positive while the other impacts are
negative. The positive impacts include enhancing staff communication regardless of
their geographical locations and enabling the employees to have access to more
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information about their organizations while the main negative impact is increasing
distraction at work (Big Think Edge, 2017).
What implications (if any) are provided? Technology is of great benefits in
organizations if used well but at the same time can ruin the performance of the
organizations if misused.
What quote will you use from this article? Technology helps to improve corporate
communication in a great way when used appropriately and so, organizations should
strive to incorporate the right technology in their operations.
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Article Analysis Three
Title of Article: Effects of Technology on Business Communications
Author(s): Miranda Morley
Publication Information: The article was published in March 2018 by Hearst
Newspapers, LLC. The article discusses the major effects of technology on
communications in businesses (Morley, 2018).
What is the thesis of this article? Technology has changed business communications
in a great way where most of the effects have been positive to the businesses and
some few effects have been negative.
What is the blueprint of this article? The article is well planned and organized
discussing the effects of technology in business communications where it starts with
the positive effects and ends with the negative effects.
What recommendations (if any) are provided? _______________________________
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What conclusions are drawn? Technology is of great importance and helps to improve
business communications in a great way if used as required. Also, technology can
affect the performance of businesses negatively if misused.
What implications (if any) are provided? Technology improves the communication
sector and the overall performance of organization if utilized as required. However, if
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misused, technology can ruin the performance of the organizations as most of the
employees can waste most of the time meant for work on the social media platforms
and thus reduce the productivity of the organizations.
What quote will you use from this article? Technology has great impacts in business
communications where most of the impacts are positive although we also have some
few negative impacts of technology in businesses, and therefore, businesses should be
very keen when using technology in their communication sector to make sure they
harness all the possible benefits and avoid all the possible drawbacks.
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References
Argenti, P. A., 2006. How Technology Has Influenced the Field of Corporate
Communication. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 20(3), pp. 357-
370.
Big Think Edge, 2017. Top 3 Impacts of Technology on Business Communication.
[Online]
Available at: http://www.bigthinkedge.com/blog/top-3-impacts-of-technology-on-
business-communication
[Accessed 16 November 2017].
Morley, M., 2018. Effects of Technology on Business Communications. [Online]
Available at: http://smallbusiness.chron.com/effects-technology-business-
communications-23045.html
[Accessed 28 March 2018].
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