1. The pre-literate acoustic world is defined as media that predates literacy; it is music, myth, and total immersion, while the alphabetical visual world is all that comes after this time, specifically with books, newspapers, and computers. When television was introduced, it became both the content and the conduit for an acoustic space.
2. The alphabet has segregating tendencies as, when something is written, it is usually only able to be read by one or two people at a time. However, with the invention of the printing press, text is able to be read by thousands of people at the same time.
3. The alphabet makes cyberspace acoustic by giving it the ability to produced music, myth, and total immersion of media. It is, however, different from the world of television, radio, and print as it does not grant you the physical immersion in a way that the previously stated forms of media can.
4. The selection criteria for media are defined as a need for natural human communication's continuous existence and to retrieve the elements of this communication that were lost in past media conduits. Our online communication will most likely advance to include several forms of biological communication, such as touch, smell, and taste.
