Computer
Visual Communication:
● Graphically presents info to efficiently & Advantages Disadvantages
effectively create meaning
● Limited text is used to explicate the meaning Social Networking Threat to personal info
Importance of VC: Education & Technology Spamming
● Visuals can be used to communicate ideas
that words can’t Entertainment Cyber crime
● Helps make more important-yet-dry info more
digestible Online services Virus attacks
● Leads to better info recall
Types of VC: Internet Services: allows us to access huge amount of
1) Presentations: makes it far more compelling than info (text, graphics, sound & software) over the internet
simply talking through the info
4 Categories of IS:
2) Graphs: to convey numerical/categorical info
1. Communication:
3) Posters: for jogging their memory & keeping it at the ● Electronic Mail: to send electronic message
forefront of their minds ● Newsgroup: offers a forum for people to
discuss topics of common interest
4) Timelines: to map out projects in chronological order, ● Mailing Lists: organizes group of internet
w/ deadlines & milestones users to share common info through email
● Internet Relay Chat: enables you to talk/chat
5) Mind maps: ‘Radial thinking’, where lines & links show individuals/groups of people using
the relationship between the central concept & other aliases/screen names to send type messages
related ideas in real time
● Internet Telephony (VoIP): allows the internet
6) Checklists: to ensure that all steps have been
users to talk across internet to any PC
completed in a project/that all moving parts are present
equipped to receive the call
before submitting an important document
● TELNET: to log on to a remote computer that’s
7) Graphic Design: planning & creation of marketing attached to the internet
materials that communicate visually ● Instant Messaging: real time chat between
individuals & group of people (i.e. Yahoo & MSN
8) Art: advertising, set design, cartoonist, illustrators, messenger)
interior designers & art directors
2. Information Retrieval:
9) Photography: pics tell stories, capture & record events ● File Transport Protocol (FTP): to transfer files
for future perspectives ● Archie: updated database of public FTP sites &
their content & helps to search a file by its
4) Multimedia: websites, mobile apps, etc name
● Gopher: to search, retrieve, & display
Other popular methods to present info visually: documents on remote sites
brochures, YT vids, animated graphics, custom images & ● Very Easy Rodent Oriented Netwide Index to
vectors, infographics, social media, websites Computer Achieved (VERONICA): gopher based
resource & allows access to the info resource
Internet: global computer network providing a variety of stored on gopher’s servers
info & communication facilities, consisting of
interconnected networks using standardized 3. Web:
communication protocols ● World Wide Web (WWW)/W3: offers a way to
access documents over the several servers
History of Internet: over the internet (texts, graphics, audio, video,
hyperlinks). The hyperlinks allow the users to
1960 US Defense Department: to help their scientists &
navigate between the docu
researchers from widely dispersed areas work as if they
● Video Conferencing or Teleconferencing: 2-way
were in one place by sharing their files & resources
video & audio transmission w/ the help of
telecommunication technologies
Cold War: bombproof network
- Modes of Video Conferencing: Point
1969 ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency to point & Multi-point
Network): forerunner of today’s internet
Originally, the web was developed for physicist; but
Oct 24, 1995 FNC (Federal Networking Council): today, it has evolved into the main street of cyberspace
● Passed the resolution defining the term
Web Protocols:
internet
● Developed w/ consultation from the leadership 1. HTTP: standard means of transmitting files written in
of the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Hypertext Markup Language over networks
communities
2. SMTP: standard format for sending email & attached
files to 1 or more electronic mailboxes
3. VoIP: allows delivery of voice communications over IP
networks
4. FTP: allows for the transfer of files between an FTP
server & computer
Visual Communication:
● Graphically presents info to efficiently & Advantages Disadvantages
effectively create meaning
● Limited text is used to explicate the meaning Social Networking Threat to personal info
Importance of VC: Education & Technology Spamming
● Visuals can be used to communicate ideas
that words can’t Entertainment Cyber crime
● Helps make more important-yet-dry info more
digestible Online services Virus attacks
● Leads to better info recall
Types of VC: Internet Services: allows us to access huge amount of
1) Presentations: makes it far more compelling than info (text, graphics, sound & software) over the internet
simply talking through the info
4 Categories of IS:
2) Graphs: to convey numerical/categorical info
1. Communication:
3) Posters: for jogging their memory & keeping it at the ● Electronic Mail: to send electronic message
forefront of their minds ● Newsgroup: offers a forum for people to
discuss topics of common interest
4) Timelines: to map out projects in chronological order, ● Mailing Lists: organizes group of internet
w/ deadlines & milestones users to share common info through email
● Internet Relay Chat: enables you to talk/chat
5) Mind maps: ‘Radial thinking’, where lines & links show individuals/groups of people using
the relationship between the central concept & other aliases/screen names to send type messages
related ideas in real time
● Internet Telephony (VoIP): allows the internet
6) Checklists: to ensure that all steps have been
users to talk across internet to any PC
completed in a project/that all moving parts are present
equipped to receive the call
before submitting an important document
● TELNET: to log on to a remote computer that’s
7) Graphic Design: planning & creation of marketing attached to the internet
materials that communicate visually ● Instant Messaging: real time chat between
individuals & group of people (i.e. Yahoo & MSN
8) Art: advertising, set design, cartoonist, illustrators, messenger)
interior designers & art directors
2. Information Retrieval:
9) Photography: pics tell stories, capture & record events ● File Transport Protocol (FTP): to transfer files
for future perspectives ● Archie: updated database of public FTP sites &
their content & helps to search a file by its
4) Multimedia: websites, mobile apps, etc name
● Gopher: to search, retrieve, & display
Other popular methods to present info visually: documents on remote sites
brochures, YT vids, animated graphics, custom images & ● Very Easy Rodent Oriented Netwide Index to
vectors, infographics, social media, websites Computer Achieved (VERONICA): gopher based
resource & allows access to the info resource
Internet: global computer network providing a variety of stored on gopher’s servers
info & communication facilities, consisting of
interconnected networks using standardized 3. Web:
communication protocols ● World Wide Web (WWW)/W3: offers a way to
access documents over the several servers
History of Internet: over the internet (texts, graphics, audio, video,
hyperlinks). The hyperlinks allow the users to
1960 US Defense Department: to help their scientists &
navigate between the docu
researchers from widely dispersed areas work as if they
● Video Conferencing or Teleconferencing: 2-way
were in one place by sharing their files & resources
video & audio transmission w/ the help of
telecommunication technologies
Cold War: bombproof network
- Modes of Video Conferencing: Point
1969 ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency to point & Multi-point
Network): forerunner of today’s internet
Originally, the web was developed for physicist; but
Oct 24, 1995 FNC (Federal Networking Council): today, it has evolved into the main street of cyberspace
● Passed the resolution defining the term
Web Protocols:
internet
● Developed w/ consultation from the leadership 1. HTTP: standard means of transmitting files written in
of the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Hypertext Markup Language over networks
communities
2. SMTP: standard format for sending email & attached
files to 1 or more electronic mailboxes
3. VoIP: allows delivery of voice communications over IP
networks
4. FTP: allows for the transfer of files between an FTP
server & computer
