Summary reading p 86 -92

Pre-modern communities were based on the the social relations that predicated sharing, the modern community is based on the social relations that bind independent individuals together. In the begining the phone was accepted as a mean of practical impersonal use for business. People used to have a phone as community property. They often gathered around the phone as a social meeting point while waiting for a phone call. Later as more people had the phones in their homes, the phone’s use has changed into social personal use for keeping in touch with family and friends. The phone had some how changed the way they interacted. Although it seemed on the surface that they no longer interacted face to face, however it didn’t mean that the interaction had stopped. In fact, communication since the introduction of the private telephone had changed form into non- constricted time space limitation.
Later as the society evolved, telephone had develop into a form of mass communication. The telephone has a new kind of public use. The development of the radio and television phone-in or chat show has serve to highlight the use of the telephone for public broadcasting. Chat shows enable the audience to speak, and the receiver to become the sender of the message, allowing for the roles of audience and broadcaster to be interchangeable. Audience participation brings the private into the public as well as taking the public into the private. The traditional, space-bound narrative interaction declines, but narrative does not disappear. It too, like time and space, is renegotiated. As sociability enters the public domain, linguistic practises also changed in the local situation. Telecommunications and broadcasting transform both how people communicate, who they communicate with and what they communicate about in the real world of their daily lives.