EVOLUTION OF COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES: SOCIO-CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION OF HUMANS INTO DIGITAL USERS
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.31392/cult.alm.2025.1.40Keywords:
digital communication, communication technologies, digital user, societal culture, socio-cultural transformation, digital cultureAbstract
This article explores the development of communication technologies from verbal communication to its ultimate point – digital communication. The study examines the impact of communication technologies on societal culture, specifically considering the evolution of communication technologies in light of their socio-cultural consequences. These include the primitive period of communication technologies (from speech to writing), the mechanisation period (from writing to printing, from printing to electronics), and the digitalisation period (from electronic to digital).The transformation that began during the primitive communication period continues today with the digitalisation of communication. The use of digital technologies in the field of communication has influenced and started to transform many socio-cultural processes. Products of digital communication technologies, such as mobile phones, computers, and tablets, which are used by almost everyone, create not only a mobile person but also a digital society. However, it should be acknowledged that the changes humanity has undergone in the field of communication technologies in recent decades have made a tremendous leap forward and reached great heights today. Radio, television, satellite technologies, computers, internet technologies, mobile phones, and subsequent smartphones and tablets have led to various changes in both communication technologies and socio-cultural transformations. The main focus of this article is not the historical process of communication technology development but rather why and how they affect society. An attempt has been made to demonstrate that a new communication process called digital communication has emerged. This article examines the process of synchronous mutual communication, which relates to the cultural communication process where people can simultaneously engage in both technology-mediated and technology-free communication.
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