Evolution of media

• 1. Pre industrial
  2. Industrial
  3. Electronic
  4. Information
• pre-industrial age

  • before 1700s
  • Pre historic
  • 4.5 million years ago
  • Discovered fire, developed paper from plants and built weapons
  • Tool created from materials in nature
• Cave paintings

  • 35000BC
  • Animals and rituals
• Clay tablets

  • Mesopotamia
  • 2400BC
  • stories and rituals
• Papyrus

  • Egypt
  • 2500BC
  • Write stories and record history
• Acta Diurna

  • Rome
  • 130BC
  • Announcement
• Dibao

  • China
  • 2nd century
  • Announcement
• Codex

  • Mayan region
  • 5th century
  • Record rituals
• Printing press using woodblocks

  • East asia
  • 220AD
  • Text, images, pattern
• Industrial age

  • 1700s - 1930s
  • Great Britain
  • Factories were built
  • Mediums/medias were created through machine
• Printing press

  • 19th century
  • Print reading materials
• Newspapers

  • 1600s
  • War and natural disasters
• Typewriter

  • 1800s
  • Type stories
• Telegraph

  • 1840
  • Transmit symbols
• Telephone

  • 1876
  • Verbal communication
• Motion picture photography/projection

  • 1890
  • To entertain
• Commercial motion pictures

  • 1913
• Motion picture with sound

  • 1926
• Electronic age

  • 1930s - 1980s
  • The start of the use of electricity
• Television

  • 1940s
  • To watch drama and news
• Transistor radio

  • 1950s
  • To listen to music
• Computers

  • Late 1940s to early 1950s
  • For calculations
• OHP/LCD Projectors

  • Late 1950s to early 1960s
• Information age

  • 1900s - 2000s
  • Digital age
  • Start of internet, social media, and other technological advancement
• Portable phone

  • 1973
  • Martin Cooper
• Portable computers/laptop

  • 1981
• Web browsers

  • 1989
• Search engines

  • 1990
• Social media sites

  • 1997
  • Six degrees