MIL

• Media


  Channels or ways we use to transmit of communicate messages; communication tools
• Why media is important

  • Entertaining and providing an outlet for the imagination
  • Educating and informing
  • Serving as a public forum for the discussion of important issue
  • Acting as a watchdog for government, business and other institutions
• Pre-Industrial Age (Before 1700s)


  • People discovered fire
  • Developed paper from plants
  • Forged weapon and tools with stone, bronze, copper and iron
• Pre-Industrial Age (Before 1700s)


  • Cave paintings (35,000 BC)
  • Pictographs and petroglyphs
  • Papyrus in Egypt (2500 BC)
  • Clay Tablets in Mesopotamia (2400 BC)
  • Acta Diurna in Rome (130 BC)
  • Dibao in China (2nd Century)
  • Codex in the Mayan Region (5th Century)
  • Printing press using wood blocks (220 AD)
• Industrial Age (1700s – 1930s)

  • People used the power of steam
  • Developed machine tools
  • Established iron production
  • Manufacturing of various products
• Industrial Age (1700s – 1930s)


  • Printing press for mass production (19th Century)
  • Newspaper Production (1600s)
  • The London Gazette (1665)
  • Typewriter (1800)
  • Telephone (1876)
  • Motion Pictures (1890)
  • Sound Films (1894)
• Electronic Age (1930s – 1980s)

  • Invention of the transistor
  • People harnessed the power of transistors
• Electronic Age (1930s – 1980s)

  • Transistor Radio (1950s)
  • Commercial Television (Early to mid 1940s)
  • Large Electronic Computers (Late 1940s to early 1950s)
  • Mainframe Computers (1960s)
  • Personal Computer (late 1960s)
  • Overhead Projectors (OHP) (late 1950s, early 1960s)
  • LCD Projector (mid to late 1980s)
• Information Age (1900s – 2000s)


  • Web Browser
  • Search Engines
  • Blogging Sites
  • Social Networks
  • Microblogging Sites
  • Instant Messaging and Video Conferencing
  • Portable Computers
  • Mobile Phone
  • Wearable Technology
  • Cloud and Big Data