1. Electronic Communication Ken Nguyen Department of Information Technology Clayton State University

2. Applied Computing Electronic Communication There are abundant types of electronic communication such as:  Email and webmail,  discussion forum,  Instant Messaging,  Blogging and texting. They have at least 2 things in common:  Digital formats  Communication via electronic channels

3. Applied Computing Emails An electronic mail, or a digital message consists in an evelope the message header and the message. The message header controls information along with sender's email address, and recipients' email addresses Emails was started with a common host (must be on the same machine to send and recieved) and have been evolved into network store and forward

4. Applied Computing How mordern emails work Sending: STMP Retreving: POP or IMAP Images from gerenoygelly.blogspot.com

5. Applied Computing Forums/ Mesage Boards Messages are stored on a server Messages are organized in groups and threads Users access the messages via the Internet Users must sign into their accounts to see their private messages There may be a moderator for a forum

6. Applied Computing Chat and IM Users must all be active – i.e. All users must be online and electronically reachable The server's main job is to propage and relay the users electronic addressable locations. Messages are sent directly from one user to others by P2P

7. Blogs Online dairies Most blogs are interactive, i.e viewers can leave comments Entries are often displayed in reverse- chronological order There are many types of blogs: art blogs, music blogs (MP3 blogs), audio blogs (potcasting), video blogs (vlogging), and microblogs (featuring very short messages), etc. Applied Computing

8. SMS, Tweets and Texting SMS:  A Short Message Service that utilizes control message to send data accrosss mobil devices  SMS messages can be up to 160 characters (extending from 128 bytes to 140 bytes or 160 7-bit characters). Tweet:  a microblog message that is transferred to mobile devices as an sms message Texting:  sending a message to a mobile device

9. Applied Computing Discussion Relating emails/webmails/forums/blogs Relating Chats/IMs/tweets/SMS Imagining a day without electronic comuunication

10. Applied Computing Read more from here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_science http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_computer_sci ence_fields http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_computer_sci ence_fields http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?d oi=10.1.1.41.9984&rep=rep1&type=pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?d oi=10.1.1.41.9984&rep=rep1&type=pdf