Topic: What is global communication and how has it promoted the globalization witnessed in the past ten years?
Intro: “Global communication is the process of transmitting and receiving information on a world-wide scale.”(1) In the near future, global communication is going to become invaluable. Businesses and governments will devote whole divisions to this process. Communication has a great amount of interpretation involved with it, therefore, in order to be successful, businesses and governments will need to make sure they are saying what they want to mean.
Thesis Statement: Global communication is going to become one of the most important things of our time.
Body:
1) Communication
a) Forms
i) Internet
(1) Chat rooms
(2) Facebook
(3) Skype
(4) Online meetings
(5) E-mail
ii) Telephone
(1) Text messages
(2) Picture messages
(3) Calls
(4) Web
iii) oral and body language
(1) Facial expressions
(2) Stance
(3) 70% of communication is nonverbal
(4) tone of voice
b) Interpretation
i) Meanings of words
ii) Translations
iii) How communication is perceived
c) Struggles with communication
i) Distance
ii) Time
(1) Written letters
(2) Transportation
(3) Troubles with different time zones
iii) Language barriers
iv) Cultural differences
Conclusion: humans are social beings, so how we communicate is very important. With businesses taking their franchises to the global level, and wars depending on the success of politics between every country, global communications are going to become one of the most important things of our time.
1. http://wiki.media-culture.org.au/index.php/Global_Communication visited on 1/25/11
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