David Murray, who edits the magazine Vital Speeches of the Day, writes a blog called Writing Boots. His post on April 9, 2024 is titled In the communication space, we think outside the dots when it comes to the language piece. He said:
“Generally, businesspeople never use a specific term when a vague one is available. It keeps people from pinning us down.
‘Business’ itself was once a hazy enough term, until someone thought to call it ‘space.’ So, I’m no longer in the communication business, I’m in the ‘communication space.’ It doesn’t get any more far out than that, man.”
But you can get even more far out. The University of Southern California (USC) has a web page for their USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism about their Master of Arts program titled Public Relations and Advertising (MA) Fall 2024 which bombastically states:
“The MA in Public Relations and Advertising provides students with applied knowledge and skills for a career in the greater communication space, including, but not limited to, public relations, advertising, digital communication, influencer relations, brand activations, corporate communications, etc.”
However, there also is a very specific engineering meaning for the similar term Communications Space. I found it on a web page at NextMileTech titled One-Touch Make-Ready:
“The National Electrical Safety Code (NESC) is the American National Standard for the safety of power and communication utility systems. The fundamental safety recommendation by the NESC is the separation of the power space and communications spaces on utility poles.
The communications space is a section of a utility pole’s usable space, allowing low-voltage attachments such as fiber, broadband, telephone, copper, and coaxial cables. The communications space is the lowest space on the pole, located forty inches below the lowest attachment of the supply space.”
An image of a utility pole came from HighVoltage 5576 at Wikimedia Commons.
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