Unit 2- Lesson 1 (Communication in the Digital Age) Flashcards
a text that is uses more than one mode of communication to convey meaning.
Multimodal Text
There are various modes through which we communicate with each other in the past:
Handwritten messages
Typewritten messages
Short telegrams
Computer – encoded texts
landline telephone conversation
audio/video recorded messages
Multimodal texts are characterized by the
combination of the five different modes of communication:
LINGUISTIC, VISUAL,
GESTURAL, AUDIO, AND SPATIAL
Filipinos spend more time on social media sites than anyone else in the world, going online roughly f______,
according to a report released on Tuesday.
four hours and 17 minutes a day
Filipinos spend most of their online time on sites such as__________, said
the report, called Digital in 2007, and prepared by social media platform Hootsuite and United
Kingdom-based consultancy We Are Social Ltd.
Facebook Snapchat and Twitter,
Brazilians and Argentinians followed closely behind, spending _____________,respectively, the report said.
three hours and 43 minutes and three hours and 32 minutes on social media,
The United States, where many of these social media players were founded, is among the bottom half, with Americans spending an average of just ________. The least active were the Japanese, who log on an average of just _________.
two hours and six seconds per day
40 minutes daily.
Who said this “It’s probably due to the same cultural dynamic that made us the text messaging capital of the world”,
Ramon Isberto
“Filipinos like to keep in touch”
Ramon Isberto
The Philippines’ social media usage was in
__________ to its internet speed.
stark contrast
________ here is among the
slowed in Asia-Pacific, while _______ are among the fastest,
according to the most recent Akamai
report.
Fixed-broadband speed
mobile
connections
The Philippines, Brazil and Argentina
have an average fixed-line broadband
speed of _________-
4.2 megabits per second
(mbps), 5.5 mbps and 5 mbps,
respectively.
The fastest was South Korea, with_________, and its citizens just spend about
1 hour and 11 minutes a day on
social media.
26.3 mbps
According to the report, the
Philippines’ internet and social media
users grew by over __ percent, up 13
million and 12 million over last year,
respectively.
25
Mobile was also a fast-growing
platform, accounting for __percent of
all Web traffic in the country, up
almost a third over 2016.
38
The Philippines, so far, had a social media
penetration rate of __percent, higher that the
average of 47 percent in Southeast Asia.
58
Around the world, internet users grew __
percent, or an additional 354 million people
while active social media users jumped 21
percent, or an additional 482 million.
10
Global active netizens using mobile phones
and other devices surged __percent, or
another 581 million people.
30
