The Role of Movies and Telephony in the History of Communication Media

Abstract

Recently various types of new communication media have emerged. Good examples are emails, blogs, and social networks such as Twitters and Facebook. There are various opinions and critics concerning these new media. Some are favorite of these media and some others are against them. However most of them only look at the surface communication phenomena initiated by these media. And only few of such opinions and critics are trying to look into the depth of the phenomena that lie in the background. In this presentation I try to investigate this recent trend based on the long history of human communications. And I want to show that this trend could be interpreted as a shift from logical communications to emotional communications. At the same time I want to clarify that this recent trend has its origin to the invention of movies and telephony in late 19th century.