digital communication
Texting and email
Digital communication is the transmission of information using electronic signals—text messages, emails, video calls, social media posts.
The term distinguishes these methods from analog forms like handwritten letters or face-to-face conversation.
Most of our digital communication happens on our phones now.
The phrase often carries implicit concerns about what's lost when screens replace physical presence.
- emailDigital written communication
- social mediaOnline content-sharing platforms
- online presenceVisibility on the internet
- instant messagingLive online text communication
- serversMachines providing network resources
modems · internet · video conferencing · voice memo · telephony · encryption algorithms · end-to-end encryption · two-factor authentication · digital footprint · screen time · telecommunications · push notification · VoIP · podcasting · netiquette · bandwidth · SMS · connectivity
- telecommunicationscell phone, cellphone, signals, cellular network, telephone calls
- digital youthscreen time, smartphones, social media, apps, texting
- workplace communicationemail, emails, memo, memos, meeting
- digital skillsdigital literacy, computer literacy, tech literacy, information literacy, web search
- networkingrouter, routers, LAN, WAN, switches
- girls communicationtexting, social media, gossip, girl talk, group chats
digital communicationsmoke signals
Flame-based distant messaging
telegraph · carrier pigeon · semaphore · oral communication · verbal communication
digital communicationphysical presence
Being somewhere in body
eye contact · face-to-face interaction · handshake · co-presence · physical touch