Media and Literacy Information

• communicating with each other is the most essential and immediate need that they had to learn, develop, and master.
• communication is to convey information they want to share and get the information they also need.
• language is one of the first things that the brain developed and enhanced.
• oral traditions as the basic ancestor of information and communication flow.
• it is only upon the invention of writing when some orally handed-down stories and information were recorded.
• Archaeologists have found that early human beings were able to communicate through writing symbols or drawing crude pictures.
• dating back to more than 30,000 years ago, Chauvet cave paintings were discovered in Southern France and have shown evidence etched onto the walls.
• Tribal cultures like those found in Africa, South America, and Native America used materials they found in nature to record their existence.
• Barks of trees, bones of animals, or sticks painted on with nature-found substances were used as recording devices of information.
• Mesopotamia, also known as the cradle of Western civilization located within the former Tigris-Euphrates river system in the region where modern-day Iraq, Kuwait, parts of Syria, Turkey, and Iran are now located.
• Clay and Stone tablets were found to have some form of symbolic impressions that make up ancient languages, the most important discovery of such is called the "Code of Hammurabi". Dating back to 1772 BCE.
• The "Code of Hammurabi", in 1772 BCE, contains written laws and codes of the Babylonian king named Hammurabi who ruled during those ancient times.
• the discovery of papyrus by ancient Egyptians and other forms of writing tools eventually led to the advent of paper.
• In East Asia, woodblock printing was developed around 200 CE when Chinese and Korean craftspeople wrote letters on textile or paper using letters carved onto wood blocks.
• In the year 1040, the movable type was invented, replacing the system of woodblock in certain areas in the region.
• The most important contribution to revolutionizing the printing press is German goldsmith Johann Gutenberg's improvement of the movable type printing press.
• Using his skills and knowledge in metals, German Goldsmith Johann Gutenberg created a better version of the movable type in 1453.
• INDUSTRIAL AGE

  characteristics are harnessing electricity for daily use, social change, politically motivated movements, and rapid economic developments.
• The very first newspaper was printed in the late 1590s in Western Europe.
• Magazine followed suit in 1741
• America prepared to enshrine its Constitution on paper in 1790.
• proliferation of politically ripe printed pamphlets in Europe during the 1500s
• INDUSTRIAL AGE

  image recording and the invention of photography also began during this era.
• Frenchman Louis Daguerre

  in 1839, somehow ushered in what we know about photography.
• With Frenchman Louis Daguerre and his daguerreotype system of capturing images in flat copper plate sheets, this was the precursor of the modern-day Polaroid one-photo-per-shoot system that went popular in the 1970s.
• George Eastman's improvement of the rolled and perforated celluloid film to go with his camera.
• George Eastman invented the first easy-to-use handheld camera called the Kodak camera, making photography accessible to the masses in 1888.
• Samuel Morse invented telegraph in 1844.
• Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876.
• Thomas Edison experimented with recording sound and music with his invention of the phonograph in 1877.
• Emile Berliner successfully developed a sound and music recording system. In 1887, he created the gramophone system which played back music recorded or flat discs or records.
• the invention of the motor system was by Elridge Johnson, making hand-cranking operations a thing of the past.
• Edison invented the incandescent light bulb and kinetoscope single-viewer film system.
• Several European and American Inventors were also working on parallel cinematic projects during the 1700s and 1800s.
• the first public commercial screening of a film was to the French brother's Auguste and Louis Lumiere in 1895.
• Auguste Lumiere and Louis Lumiere premiered their short documentary film called Arrivee d'un train en gare a La Ciotat (Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat station) in a Paris cafe in 1895.
• Lumiere brothers used their invention called the cinematographe which had the capacity of a film camera to record images and the capacity of a film projector to project the film onto a big screen.
• Lumiere brothers opened the first theater dedicated to screening films called the cinema.
• Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell experimented with electromagnetic waves or radio waves in 1873.
• German physicist Heinrich Hertz demonstrated the first transmission of these radio waves in 1887.