One of the four 2x2 patterns is not recognized as “communication”
- Those done for specific humans and those done for non-humans.
- What is closed with the parties and what is open to others.
Before the development of IT technology
- When two people were talking, it was “specific human partner” and “closed”.
- Sometimes they spoke in a place where there were other people listening: “specific human counterparts” and “open”.
- On the other hand, there were also “non-human counterparts” and “closed” outputs such as writing a diary
- Few consider this “communication.”
- There were also “non-human counterparts” and “open” such as posting notices on physical bulletin boards.
- There were few opportunities for individuals to do this for a large audience.
- In terms of the amount of information, there were many “newspapers” and other forms of media.
- Because the cost of information dissemination was high
- The limited number of entities that could disseminate information at a cost led to the authorization of the media.
With the development of information technology
- The advent of e-mail
- It is now possible to have a “specific human partner” and “closed” across physical and temporal distances.
- mailing list
- Share email correspondence with others.
- Electronic Diary
- Some who used to keep paper diaries now keep them as digital files
- It had the advantage of being searchable.
- Electronic Diary Publishing
- Publish an electronic diary
- In the early days, this was done by editing HTML by hand
- Later, blogs were created and became widely practiced as the cost of work and the knowledge required was reduced.
- Decrease in information dissemination costs
Most tools can be used in both ways, so it is futile to try to classify tools (False dichotomy).
- Blogs, which are now considered to be a form of transmission for an unspecified number of people, had the concept of “trackbacks” in the early days.
- Ability to send a notification to a specific individual saying, “I wrote an article that mentions your article.
- Conversations on mailing lists are often “a reply to an email written by a certain person” (to a specific person), but
- When I first send a question or suggestion to the mailing list, it’s often “tell me who you are” without assuming a specific, specific person.
context - Mental Model Transition in Communication
- [Supplement to Differences in Generational Communication,
- Is the mailing list one-to-one?”
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