Contemporary World

• Papyrus - one of the most popular writing surfaces from a plant found along the Nile River.
• Doctrina Christiana - First ever book that was printed in the Philippines.
• Wood - Writing surfaces
• Oral Communication - the oral medium, human speech, is the oldest and most enduring of all media.
• Homo Sapiens - was observed to develop speech which makes him different from other animal creatures.
• Cuneiform - developed into symbols that represented the syllables of languages and eventually led to the creation of alphabet.
• Script - explores the brief transition from the oral form of communication to printing.
• Mass Media - refers to the technological instrument through which communication flows.
• Digital Media - most often electronic media that rely on digital codes.
• Johannes Gutenberg - invented movable metal type printing press.
• Computer - comes as the latest and some would argue, most significant medium to influence globalization.
• Samuel F.B. Morse - Sued coded messages.
• Television - brought together the visual and aural power of film with accessibility of radio.
• Media - are tools used to store and deliver information or data / refer to a single medium used to communicate any data for any purpose.
• Alexander Graham Bell - is credited with Inventing telephone in 1876.
• Radio - Develop alongside the telegraph and telephone in the late 1890s.
• The Great Train Robbery - Made in 1903, is often credited as the first narrative film.
• 200,000 years - Speech has been with us.
• Flora and Fauna - Communicated and passed through generations through the aid of speaking.