Uniwersalizm komunikacji w środowisku elektronicznym

Universalism of Communication in an Electronic EnvironmentThis article concerns communication that is transferred from the physical world into an electronic environment. In the physical world non-verbal communication, which is limited in an electronic environment, is sometimes important. This leads to the following question: when non-verbal means in mediated communication are reduced, is there a reduction of communication or do there arise new forms of mediated communication that are adequate, expressive and commonly understandable? I argue that the transfer of human communication to an electronic environment reduces the importance and form of written language and creates a new form of communications in the Web. Firstly, it downgrades the use of traditional language, and secondly, it enables the transfer of information that is commonly understandable. It is possible that in non-mediated communication in the physical world what is important is the language of communication, while in mediated communication what is important is the understanding of information; the value becomes communication where the language used is not as important as communication itself.Websites, social websites, communicators, hypertext libraries or symbols serve to migrate meanings into a common human system of communication built upon the language of technology and leads to openness of discourse and brevity and condensation of information. Electronic forms of communications seem to have more capacity for transfer, which allows them to cope with the simultaneous transmission of the large quantities of information that are exchanged in electronic contact.The article describes the principal features of mediated communication: 1. those that flow from ontology, when communication is transferred from the physical sphere into the electronic environment, 2. the non-physicality and personalization of communication, which results from lack of the non-verbal elements which constitute communication in physicality, 3. the quality and value of communication, which follows from the human need to transform information into the Web as real, and the need to include fullness of the senses, which is connected with the intensionalization of information that existed in the immaterial environment.The last part of the article presents the idea of the language universalism of Web communication, which results from the use of the language of technology, i.e. binary or HTML languages. This is connected with the issue of the commonness of computer code in all mediated transfer. An example of this is automatic translation, which, while frequently unsatisfying and incomplete, can be acceptable in common life because of the general comprehensibility of information found in the Web, although its quality is often not investigated. This part of the article also points out that the language used can appear to be human language, while it is in fact the language of technology. A human being is the creator of this language, but it is mostly created by appliances. Communication between human beings and appliances are performed by the language of technology, where human notions are recorded and translated into the binary language.