Unity and diversity in communication: inevitable, permanent co-habitation, harmonious co-existence or two forces waiting to converge? Unity and diversity in communication: inevitable, permanent co-habitation, harmonious co-existence or two forces waiting to converge?

• Main Author: Maria da Graça Lisboa Castro Pinto
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2008-04-01
• Series: Ilha do Desterro
• Subjects: Knowledge-based society – globalization - instruments of
• Online Access: http://www.periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/7613
• ISSN: 0101-4846; 2175-8026

The main aim of this paper is to consider the mensions “unity” and “diversity” in the realm of communication as power in a global society where the access to knowledge served by the Information and Communication Technologies (the Internet and the Web) should not be compatible with any kind of “technological/knowledge divide”. Topics such as the Internet as a global medium; the network culture; the
 instruments of regulation in a harmonious global society; e-writing from a social point of view; Netspeak; implications of multi-form Internet representations; the writings about the new technologies; the computerbased learning setting; and the role of the teacher in the computer-based
 learning setting are discussed bearing in mind the above mentioned dimensions “unity” and “diversity” as far as communication is concerned. The main aim of this paper is to consider the mensions “unity” and “diversity” in the realm of communication as power in a global society where the access to knowledge served by the Information and Communication Technologies (the Internet and the Web) should not be compatible with any kind of “technological/knowledge divide”. Topics such as the Internet as a global medium; the network culture; the
 instruments of regulation in a harmonious global society; e-writing from a social point of view; Netspeak; implications of multi-form Internet representations; the writings about the new technologies; the computerbased learning setting; and the role of the teacher in the computer-based
 learning setting are discussed bearing in mind the above mentioned dimensions “unity” and “diversity” as far as communication is concerned.