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[Douglas Galbi]

"As an apprentice information designer, I regularly 
have to decide whether to communicate information in 
words, images, or sounds.  How do I decide this?"
[Lantham (2001) p.2].  

New technologies, such as mobile camera phones, 
voice-enabled mobile gaming devices, and lower cost
color printers, are greatly increasing possibilities for 
sensuous choices in communication. The sensuous balance 
and evolution of the Internet and other communication
spaces deserves more attention. 

My work "Sense in Communication" provides much material 
that you might use in considering sensuous choices in 
communication.  It includes detailed analysis of a 
couple of artistic masterpieces: the Hamzanama of Akbar 
(sixteenth-century India) and the Morgan Bible of Louis IX 
(thirteenth-century France).  The work also includes a 
discussion of sixteenth-century English iconoclasm, and 
demonstrates the importance of that history for understanding 
Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

This work, "Sense in Communication," is publicly available 
at www.galbithink.org  I hope that it encourages more 
discussion of sensuous choices in communication industry 
development.

Douglas Galbi
FCC Senior Economist