Evolution of Tradition to New Media

• Traditional media


  Any form of mass communication available before digital media
• Digital media


  Uses electronic devices for distribution
• Pre-Industrial developments


  • Discovered fire
  • Developed paper from plant
  • Forged weapons and tools with stone, bronze, copper, and iron
• Pre-Industrial media


  • Cave painting "parietal art"
  • Clay tablets - cuneiform
  • Papyrus - pith of papyrus plant / scrolls
• Industrial developments


  • Power and steam
  • Machine tools
  • Iron production
  • Printing press for mass production (19th century)
  • Telegraph
  • Motion picture
• Electronic developments


  • Invention of the transistor
  • Radio
  • Electronic
  • Early computer
  • Long distance communication became more efficient
• New or information


  Internet and use of microelectronics
• Social media changed us