Monday, June 10, 2013

YouTube as the Primary Tool of Communication

Thinking about YouTube as a communication tool, I think, we all can agree on the fact that YouTube definitely has a great power as a medium of communication (just think about Mr. Handke’s E-Lectures), but will it ever be able to replace language as the primary tool? At this time, I cannot imagine a world without primarily communicating through language as we use it right now. A medium like YouTube surely has the potential to change the way we communicate, the way we exchange information, but still, Language as the main method of human communication, be it spoken or written, is a way too powerful tool to simply be replaced. Maybe that will change some day, maybe the definitions for language and communication will have to be adjusted in the future. I don’t know yet, but I’m very curious what the future will bring in terms of communication.

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