Evolution of Traditional to New Media

• traditional media


  magazines, books, newspapers, and radio and television broadcasts are forms of _______
• traditional media


  traditional means of communication and expression that have existed since before the advent of the new medium of the internet
• traditional media


  also known as old media or legacy media
• 2 types of media

  1. traditional media, 2. new media
• new/digital age


  when the portable laptop, tablet, smartphone, and many social media platforms emerged
• ENIAC


  the first computer followed by the calculator
• new/digital age


  a period in human history characterized by the shift from traditional industry that the Industrial Revolution brought through industrialization, to an economy based on information computerization
• electronic age


  when the transistor radio, the television, and the Apple 1 and 2 computers were invented
• electronic age


  in this age, long-distance communication became possible
• electronic age


  people harnessed the power of electricity that led to electrical telegraphy, electrical circuits, and the early large-scale computers (through vacuum tubes, transistors, and integrated circuits)
• industrial age


  when the telegraphs, telephones, printing press, and motion picture devices were invented
• industrial age


  characterized by the concentration of industry in large establishments
• industrial age


  characterized chiefly by the replacement of hand-tools with power-driven machines such as the power loom and the steam engine
• industrial age


  encompasses the changes in economic and social organizations that began around 1760 in Great Britain and later in other countries
• pre-historic


  anything before the first written accounts of history is _______, including earlier technologies
• pre-historic age


  also consists of the stone and primitive age
• start fires, hunt, bury their dead

  about 2.5 million years ago, before writing was developed, technology began with the earliest hominids who used stone tools, which they first used to ____, _____, and _____
• history


  study of the past using written records (which are deemed important)
• pre-historic age


  also known as the pre-industrial age
• 4 ages of technology

  1. pre-historic age, 2. industrial age, 3. electronic age, 4. new/digital age
• 70% of communication happens non-verbally