Abstract
The media’s permeation into the human ecosystem has adjusted the hitherto traditional relationship with digital spatiality, time, culture and human communication. This paper identified the interconnectivity between the concepts of digital spatiality, time, culture, human communication and divorce rate by critically appraising their impact with a focus on the family, being the microcosm of society. Through Emotional Intelligence Theory, this paper indicated emotional connections as the object and subject of digital spatiality, time, culture, and human communication. This is relevant at this period that the media has permeated our social system and ecology. This paper deployed textual and conceptual content analyses to unearth finding on the topic. Findings showed that technology grows exponentially through time and cultures, easing communication. However, divorce rates are also exponentially higher through time and cultures despite the ease in communication via technological innovations. Therefore, this study is significant at this time of new media challenges in family communication. Also, in the aspects of self-disclosure and applying emotional intelligence for human communicativity online and trans-culturally. Further research and integration of emotional intelligence in communication innovations in homes, relationships, and the entire human existence should be further explored based on the findings . Keywords: Family-Communication, New media, Emotional Intelligence, Self-Disclosure, Human-Communication DOI: 10.7176/NMMC/96-06 Publication date: May 31 st 2021
Highlights
Came the Telegraphs, and by the 19th Century, Television changed the landscape of communication forever when it was first introduced in 1927. (Holtzapple, 2015) Communication had followed a notable trend from a time of storytelling, when people gathered around elders to hear stories about their origin, to a time where writing became a way of life
The need arose to get these writings across to families and friends who were not physically present. This birthed the process of letter writing and posting, and in no time, it became a way of life, and people could send their loved ones notes notwithstanding their physical distance
Emotional intelligence (E.I.), according to Gayathri & Meenakshi (2013), is the eighth added to the theory of multiple intelligences, which holds that every human person has bits of intelligence and exhibit varied combinations of this intelligence
Summary
As human persons within society, we are nurtured utilising socialisation to understand, interpret and express feelings. Human culture affects how persons express their emotions, and affects human communication. In describing the human psyche, the essence of life, Aristotle mentioned emotions as core to existence. They exist to help humans communicate appropriately, sending the right signals even without necessarily speaking. There are no good or bad emotions. Instead, they are indicators that help humans explain how or what they feel. Caruso (2008) explains that emotions channel our attention, motivate engagement www.iiste.org in some behaviours, are fundamental for every effective decision making and will not interfere with proper decision making They are indicators that help humans explain how or what they feel. Caruso (2008) explains that emotions channel our attention, motivate engagement www.iiste.org in some behaviours, are fundamental for every effective decision making and will not interfere with proper decision making
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