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Communication
Explore how people shared knowledge across distance and time, from oral traditions and writing systems to print, broadcasting, telecommunications, and digital networks. These histories reveal how communication technologies reshaped politics, culture, commerce, and everyday human connection.
Trump seized on the opportunity to win their confidence and blind loyalty in spite of being the...
An increasing number of singles are being inspired to register with an online dating service. This upward...
Specific strategies for sharpening our critical and empathetic listening skills. Active Listening Overview Active listening refers to...
How environmental, physical, cognitive, and personal factors, and bad listening practices, present barriers to effective listening. Introduction...
The biggest challenge for the nation now is restoring public faith in the voting process. One of...
How to analyze situations and draw informed conclusions for accurate judgments about people, situations, and media you...
Writing is the most important invention because it makes all the other innovations possible. While researching a...
Whenever any society has had common knowledge and a sense of common interests, it has made use...
Before Facebook, we mailed idealized images of each other to those we love. My great-grandmother, who was...
Because sarcasm is often difficult to discern and improperly used, it can operate as a linguistic mulligan...
The Amarna letters reveal a treasury of knowledge concerning the political relations and social customs of their...
People have used drum telegraphy to communicate with each other from far away for centuries. Developed and...
During Queen Victoria’s reign Britain was the most powerful trading nation in the world. Introduction Victorian advances...
Since the art of writing was discovered, nearly every form of writing material has been used. By...
Human communication was revolutionized with the origin of speech approximately 500,000 BCE. Introduction The history of communication...
Propaganda tactics are timeless. While the game has moved on since the time of Augustus, the rules...
Three types of historical writing flourished in the Middle Ages: chronicles, hagiography, and the rhetorical monograph. By...
Which of these trends will stick around, and which are passing fads? Introduction Social media has created...
At the very least, in order for spoken language to be a possibility, a species has to...
Surviving letters such as clay tablets and papyrus scrolls contain a mine of information and they have...
As a result of the need to exchange information faster and more efficiently, telecommunications advanced rapidly. As...
Retracing the history of media technologies in the practice of medicine. Reba Benschoter readied herself to speak...
A century ago, a three-minute call from New York City to San Francisco on a landline cost...
Long before ‘sup’ and ‘hwu’ there was ‘Hw r u ts mng?’ From “lol” to “brb,” the...
In an age of electronic communication it is easy to forget the vital role that letter-writing played...
One of the largest analyses to date on how fake news spread on Twitter both during and...
Because Mayan hieroglyphs have yet to be encoded, the ancient Mayan emperor K’inich Janaab’ Pakal would have...
This tactic could set a political foe aside from the whole community and turn the audience against...
Making sure what’s intended is what’s heard can be more difficult than it seems. Melvin Gaal (mindsharing.eu)...