Future of Communication – “What I’ve learned first semester of Graduate school”

First and foremost, I did not know what to expect from my first semester in grad school, I had mixed feelings about starting my first semester. One of the classes I took was introduction to Digital communication, which was a broad topic to learn. After my first couple of weeks in the class taught by Professor Hedges I was overwhelmed with at that point. I had the opportunity to learn about the Media convergence, which simply means the ability to view same multimedia content from different types of devices and digitization of content (pictures, movies, music and voice). Furthermore, I learned about culture and evolution of mass communication through the years. Communication has also come through eras such as Oral, Print, Electronic, Written and Digital. Through that we also had three main media that emerged. Which are Telecommunications, Cable television and computers. As some who loves reality television I also I have always thought reality television was always be on the top list when it came to television shows, but unfortunately, it’s not, I got to understand the difference between Low media and High media as one of the Skyscraper models. After that I continued to learn about the elevation of digital media technologies which were Emails, Phone calls and Text, which took me to the difference between web 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0. web 1.0 was static with web pages, 2.0 was when internet use became personalized and 3.0 generated content. Further down during the semester I also learned the impact of digital culture. Also looking forward to the future of communication I learned about Telepathy. “Telepathy is about communicating mind-to-mind, getting someone to feel or think or ‘hear’ something from far away, without the use of sounds or symbols or anything else but bare thought. There are several types of telepathic activity. Telepathic impression (planting a message, image, or word into someone else’s mind), mind reading (copying or sensing, but not interfering with, what’s going on in someone else’s mind), mental communication (a smartphone of the mind, but without the bills), mind control (commanding or compelling the thoughts, and thus the actions, of another person through telepathy).” Fast-forward this semester has been an amazing one, it was a lot to learn and even though I felt overwhelmed it was an amazing experience for me personally,