"In the emerging Internet age, the information revolution has transformed communications in postindustrial states...reinforcing their lead in the new economy." [1]Communication is interaction between human beings, whether face to face or device-enabled.
It is measured most broadly by one's ability to affect another's life regardless of complications, such as physical or emotional distance. For nearly all of us communication in one form or another composes reality in the vast majority, "mark[ing] the boundaries of social knowledge." [2]
Communication and the internet are conceptually one in the same, and the most efficient way to define what they are is to distinguish them from what they formerly were. The model above captures this perfectly, displaying a linear nature - a small fixed group in possession of scarce broadcast resources. Technological evolution has long since updated this model to a global web with no conceivable beginning or end - A network of networks infinitely growing and changing at the authorship of all those a part of it. A symbiotic universe with its own physics and social structure, held virtually in its entirety by all members.
[1]Norris, Pippa. Information Poverty and the Wired World. The Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics (2000) Volume 5, Number 3. Print, pg 1
[2]Hardt, Hanno. Myths for the Masses: an Essay on Mass Communication. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2004
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