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Digital Communication: Sujina Ummar

Digital communication refers to any message passed through digital devices and includes examples like email, texting, and online games. It has advantages like speed, low cost, and ability to store messages for long periods. However, it also has disadvantages like unreliability, environmental degradation from electronic waste, and potential for misuse. Email and texting are specific forms of digital communication that allow messages to be sent electronically or through mobile phones respectively. Both have their own advantages like convenience but also disadvantages such as spam and computer viruses.

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Digital Communication: Sujina Ummar

Digital communication refers to any message passed through digital devices and includes examples like email, texting, and online games. It has advantages like speed, low cost, and ability to store messages for long periods. However, it also has disadvantages like unreliability, environmental degradation from electronic waste, and potential for misuse. Email and texting are specific forms of digital communication that allow messages to be sent electronically or through mobile phones respectively. Both have their own advantages like convenience but also disadvantages such as spam and computer viruses.

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Digital Communication

Sujina Ummar
• The word digital comes from the same
source as the word digit and digitus (the
Latin word for finger), as fingers are used
for discrete counting.
What is Digital Communication?
• Digital Communication is any
message passed through digital
devices
• Digital Communication can be easy
and quick to use
• Digital Communication can be
dangerous if you use it unsafely
Advantages
• It is fast and easier.
• No paper is wasted.
• The messages can be stored in the device
for longer times, without being damaged.
• Digital communication can be done over
large distances through internet and
other things.
• It is comparatively cheaper.
• It removes semantic barriers because
the written data can be easily changed to
different languages using software.
• It provides facilities like video conferencing
which save a lot of time, money and
effort.
Disadvantages
• It is unreliable as the messages cannot be
recognised by signatures.
• The establishment of Digital
Communication causes degradation of
the environment in some cases.
– "Electronic waste" is an example. The vibes
given out by the telephone and cell phone
towers are so strong that they can kill small
birds.
• Many people misuse the efficiency of
Digital Communication.
What are some examples?
Some examples of digital communication are
• E-mailing
- Computers
• Texting
- Cell Phones
• Online games
- Web Kinz
-Club Penguin
Email
• Electronic mail is often abbreviated to e-
mail
• Email is a store-and-forward method of
writing, sending, receiving and saving
messages through computers
• An electronic mail message consists of
two components,
– the message header,
– and the message body, which is the email's
content.
• The message header contains control
information, including, an originator's email
address and one or more recipient
addresses.
• Usually additional information is added,
such as a subject header field.
• The at sign, a part of every e-mail
address.
Advantages
• Email enables speedy communication
• Email provides the receiver an option to
respond immediately
• e-mail is a low cost way to transmit
messages
• e-mail messages are always easy to locate
• it is always a secure means of sending
messages
Disadvantages
• Lack of computer knowledge among
people, so not sure all receiving parties
use email system
• Unwanted SPAM emails
• Illegal contents including virus damages
end user systems, data & reputation
• Email might not send due to loss of
connection to the internet
Texting
• The common term for the sending of
"short“ messages from mobile phones or
portable devices is called texting
• Texting works using the Short Message
Service (SMS)
• SMS is an acronym standing for Short
Message Service.
• It is commonly referred to as text
messaging or "texting" as well.
• SMS is a method by which messages can
be sent to a cell phone via another cell
phone, a computer connected to the
Internet, a regular land line.
• The idea of adding text messaging to the
services of mobile users was latent in
many communities of mobile
communication services at the beginning
of the 1980s.
Advantages
• Its cheap
• Reliable
• Simple
• Non voice
• SMS it connects many people around the
world through text messaging social
networking
The End!
SPAM
• E-mail spam, also known as junk e-mail,
is a subset of spam that involves nearly
identical messages sent to numerous
recipients by e-mail.
Message
• The message header contains control
information, including, minimally, an
originator's email address and one or
more recipient addresses. Usually
additional information is added, such as a
subject header field.
VIRUS

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