[2] Thus, Davis defines mediated communication as the use of any technical medium for transmission across time and space.
[3] Even though humans possessed the technology to communicate in space and time for millennia, the majority of the world's population lacked skills such as literacy to use them.
[4] Whatever the tradition, face-to-face interaction has begun to steadily lose ground to mediated communication.
[7] New computerized media, such as mobile telephones or instant messaging, allow mediated communication to transmit more oral and nonverbal symbols than the older generation of tools.
[11] Texting and e-mail, for example, contain combined forms of writing and speech, which is evident by slang and shorthand.
[13] This increased rate of information transfer allows abusive forms of communication like cyberbullying and phishing to occur.
[16] There are five communication purposes: coordination, knowledge-sharing, information gathering, relationship development, and conflict resolution.
Print In the 15th century the invention of the printing press in Europe led to large scale production and circulation of information and symbolic content in various formats and genres including religious texts, fiction and non-fiction books, political pamphlets, journal articles, reports and government publications, and newspapers.
[6] Mediated communication also includes telecommunications, radio, film, television and digital technologies.
Email Electronic mail is digital mechanism for exchanging messages through internet or intranet communication platforms.