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Communication Today

Short Version

The word communicate means “to share”. People share information all the time.
It is one of our basic needs. We can, for example, speak to people face-to-face,
write messages or post photos on Instagram.

People have always explored new ways to communicate. Light signals and
pigeons are very old methods. Then there were letters, telephones and fax
machines. If you wrote a letter to someone in the past, you often had to wait a
long time for a reply. Communication in the media was a one-way street: the
journalists created the content, and the readers received it. People could write a
letter to the editor of a newspaper if they wanted to express their opinion, but it
took many days before it was printed.

Today everything happens much faster. Everybody can share information and
write comments, and what you write is online there and then. Through social
media you can interact online with a website and with other people. The content
is mostly user-generated, which means that it is created by everybody who uses
it. There are many types of social media, such as Facebook for personal use,
LinkedIn for business, Wikipedia and World of Warcraft. We can access these
media on our phones, tablets and computers.

Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook in 2004, and today it has over one billion
users. More than half of all adults in Norway use Facebook daily. Many also use
Twitter and Instagram, but these are still not as popular as Facebook.

Our media habits are changing fast. We do not read printed newspapers and
magazines as often as people did twenty years ago. Instead, we spend a lot of
time online. A survey by Ofcom shows that people in the UK are still watching

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TV together, but they are ‘media meshing’. This means that they are watching
TV and doing something else at the same time, for example tweeting about the
show they are watching.

Digital technology also affects our language. New words are created all the
time, such as selfie and phubbing. Old words get new meanings, for example
status, tag, wall and to unfriend. All these words are English, because English is
the language of the internet. It is our lingua franca. Many English words enter
the Norwegian language.

Some people say that the social media are sabotaging real communication.
Online we can hide our true feelings, and we do not show our body language.
This may be a problem because body language is very important in
communication with other people.

Modern communication has changed the way we communicate. Most of us


cannot imagine a world without the World Wide Web. We can communicate with
people 24/7. Modern communication has both positive and negative effects on
us. How does digital communication influence our language, our identity and our
interaction with others? How do we balance our offline and online lives? What
will happen next?

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Glossary
English Bokmål Nynorsk
to share å dele å dele
basic needs grunnleggende behov grunnleggjande behov
explored utforsket utforska
pigeons duer duer
reply svar svar
content innhold innhald
received mottok mottok
opinion mening meining
interact with kommunisere med, påvirke kommunisere med, påverke
hverandre kvarandre
user-generated laget av brukerne selv laga av brukarane sjølve
tablets lesebrett lesebrett
media habits medievaner medievanar
magazines ukeblad vekeblad
survey undersøkelse undersøking
Ofcom navnet på instansen som namnet på instansen som
regulerer TV, radio og regulerer TV, radio og
telefonoperatørene i telefonoperatørane i
Storbritannia Storbritannia
media meshing det å bruke flere medier det å bruke fleire medier
samtidig samtidig
affects påvirker påverkar
phubbing det å være mer opptatt av det å være meir oppteken av
mobilen din enn av den du er mobilen din enn av den du er
sammen med saman med
lingua franca felles kommunikasjonsspråk felles kommunikasjonsspråk
are sabotaging ødelegger øydelegg
true her: ekte her: ekte
influence påvirke påverke
interaction kommunikasjon kommunikasjon

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