Lesson 2

• Pre-Industrial Age Before 1700s

  The discovery of fire, the development of paper from plants, and the forgery of weapons and tools with stone, bronze, copper, and iron.

  Ex.

  Cave Paintings (35,000 BC)

  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

  The use of the power of steam, development of machine tools, establishment of iron production, and the manufacturing of books through the printing press.

  Ex.

  Printing press for mass production (19th century)

  Newspaper Production (1600s)

  The London Gazette (1665)

  Typewriter (1800)

  Telegraph (1840s)

  Telephone (1876)

  Motion Pictures (1890)

  Sound Films (1894)

  Punch Cards (1890s – 1930s)
• Electronic Age 1930s-1980s

  The invention of the transistor which led to the transistor radio, electronic circuits, and early computers.

  Ex.

  Transistor Radio (1950s)

  Commercial Television (early to mid 1940s)

  Large Electronic Computers (late 1940s to early 1950s)

  EDSAC (1947) (Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator)

  UNIVAC I (1951) (UNIVersal Automatic Computer I)

  Mainframe Computers (1960s)

  Personal Computers (late 1960s)

  Hewlett-Packard 9100A

  Apple I

  Overhead Projectors (OHP) (late 1950s, early 1960s)

  LCD Projectors (mid to late 1980s)
• Information Age 1900s-2000s

  The internet paved the way for faster communication and the creation of the social network.

  Ex.

  Web Browsers

  Search Engines

  Social Networks

  Microblogging Sites

  Photo and Video Sharing Websites

  Instant Messaging and Video Conferencing

  Mobile Phones

  Portable Computers

  Cloud and Big Data
• Types of Media

  Print Media

  -Consisting of paper and ink, reproduced in a printing process that is traditionally mechanical.
• Broadcast Media

  -Reaches target audiences using airwaves as the transmission medium (radio and television).
• Digital or New Media

  -Integration of technologies emerging on one digital platform to organize and distribute content
• Media Convergence

  The merging of different equipment and tools for producing and distributing news through digitization and computer networking.
• Trends in Media

  -A change or development towards something new or different; reflects what seems to be going around at any given time
• Information

  Data that has been collected, processed, and interpreted in order to be presented in a useable form.