What Is Communication?
Types Of Industry
Economic Benefits
Communication is a transmission of information, especially by electronic or mechanical means. Communication was first invented in 1876 by Alexander Graham Bell with Thomas Watson. Also, Bell patented his invention on March 1876. In Canada, Marshall Mcluhan , a famous Canadian philosopher and communication theorist stated in the late 1950s that the world is becoming a global village. He said that technical improvements were making communications easy as if the world peoples were all living in a small village.
Canada’s got many different types of industries, the four main types are: primary industries, secondary industries, tertiary industries and quaternary industries. A primary industry will extract raw minerals, secondary industries involve the manufacturing of raw materials and turning them into another product, tertiary industries provide services to other industries, and quaternary industries are hightech industries like research and development companies. Now moving on to two subtypes of industries, the basic and nonbasic industries. A basic industry is one that provides community services to outside cities, and helps the overall community to grow, such as factories. On the other hand, a nonbasic industry is one that does not generate money from outside the community and provides service to basic industries such as hardware stores. An example of that is the relationship between some pattern and model making shops, that will support a nearby automotive industry so that it make money through exports and other sales.
Have you ever wondered how much money is made from communicationrelated products? Well, a lot of money is made from it, I can assure you that. Big companies like Apple and Samsung sell millions of products each year worldwide, and Apple has probably made $70.000 in Canada since this presentation started. These types of companies provide large amounts of money to the government and jobs to people living in our area. Canada makes billions and billions of dollars per year from big American companies, which help the economy grow and develop more things. Canada is the 12th largest importer and exporter in the world, making $437 million from imports and $437 million from exports in 2013, the most recent communicationrelated ones being telephones with $1.53 billion and computers with $10.1 billion.
Key Terms Definitions Gross domestic product : The value of a country’s total exports at market prices, excluding net income.
Key Terms Definitions Global village : idea that the world is becoming like one large village because of improvements in communication. Convergent Technologies : the merging of various communication technologies, such as the internet and telephone communication. sources: making connections canada's geography pages 422,536,537,540 http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/communication.shtml
Sources: http://revisionworld.com/gcserevision/geography/industry/differenttypesindu stry http://bpimm.weebly.com/basicandnonbasicindustry.html
sources: http://www.ey.com/CA/en/Services/Tax/TaxMattersDecember2014Can adiangovernmentrevenue1984to2014 http://atlas.media.mit.edu/en/profile/country/can/
Human Resources The communication industry is very large, meaning the workforce is even larger. As the generation of technology advances most graduating students filter into the service sector and the communications industry. Whether it's at a call center, a web designer, programmer, radio or tv show host, or a publisher. 37,000 companies comprise the information and communications technology sector, of which 87.6% work in software and computer services, 5.6% in wholesale, 3.0% in manufacturing, and 3.8% in general communications services. This massive industry generates 159.9 billion in revenues, it's also a major source of jobs. This sector already accounts for 3% of employment, but when new forms of communication are introduced there becomes a new demand on jobs where this new product is produced. Lastly this industry it based on exports, as new products are produced more people around the world grow interest on it.
Problems associated
Conclusion
Communications are changing and fast. Sometime these changes are not good. As our generation evolves so does our economy. With more advanced technologies some people are losing their jobs. Online shopping eliminates retail jobs, automized telecenters effect secretary jobs, and so on. Another major issue that communications technologies causes is that it reduces the need for companies to be physically close to their customers. Most call centers operate from places where labour costs are much lower than in canada. These call centers have been outsourcing from places like southern india. Many companies do this because it reduces the cost of communications and it becomes an insignificant cost to do business. These call centers work mainly to do things like make a reservation, or purchase a product, and even customer service. But these are just a few of the problems communications technology create.
In conclusion, communications are improving every year and it gets better and better but still there’s some problems. Not everything can be perfect. If there’s a good side, there’s a downside also. Good side is that we can communicate without having difficulty and the bad side is that there could be some errors and some people may lose their jobs because of it.
key terms definitions outsourcing ~The practice of having certain job functions done outside a company instead of having an inhouse department or employee handle them; functions can be outsourced to either a company or an individual . call center ~A place of business where customer service telephone calls are received. sources: making connections canada's geography pages 396400 and 424 https://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/icttic.nsf/eng/h_it07229.html
sources: http://www.entrepreneur.com/encyclopedia/outsourcing
making connections canada’s geography pages 400401 and 536
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Quiz
1. Which of the following is not in the communications industry? a) Radio host b) Manager c) Publisher d) Programmer
2. How many companies comprise the information and communications technology sector? a) 370 b) 3,700 c) 25,000 d) 37,000 3. Who is not relevant in this topic? a) Alfred Wegener b) Thomas Watson c) Marshall Mcluhan d) Alexander Graham Bell 4. What percentage of employees in the technology sector work in software and computer services? a) 6.78% b) 76.8% c) 87.6% d) 12%
5. How does online shopping affect communications? a) It generates a lot of money b) Its cheap c) It eliminates retail jobs d) None of the above 6. What is a call centre? a) A place where anyone can place a free call b) A place of business where customer service telephone calls are received. c) a and b d) None of the above 7. What is global village? a) An educational book b) A website c) An era where the entire world resembled a village d) The idea that the world is becoming like one large village because of improvements in communication. True or false: 8. Communication was first invented in 1999 9. Convergent Technologies is the merging of various communication technologies, such as the internet and telephone communication.
10. Canada makes a large amount of money from both domestic and foreign sales. 11. Gross domestic product is the value of a country’s total imports at market prices. 12. A nonbasic industry is one that does not generate money from outside the community. 13. The communications sector already accounts for 93% of employment 14. Outsourcing is very expensive Fill in the blanks: 15. The ________ industry extracts raw minerals 16. Canada has the ___ largest export and import economy. 17. The communicationrelated jobs make ____ in revenue. 18. ______ _______ is eliminating jobs in retail. 19. A ______ ________ does not make money from outside the community. 20. Canada made nearly $_______ more than they did 30 years ago. 21. Call centers do things like make a reservation, purchase a product, and ________ ________
Answer key 1: B 2: D 3: A 4: C 5: C 6: B 7: D 8: FALSE 9: TRUE 10: TRUE 11: FALSE 12: TRUE
13: FALSE 14: FALSE 15: Primary 16: 12th 17: 159.9 billion 18: Online Shopping 19: NonBasic Industry 20: 200.000 million 21: Customer Service