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Identify traditional media and new media, and their relationships. relationships. Editorialize the roles and functions of media in democratic society
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Examine the technology or resources available during the prehistoric age, the industrial age, the electronic age, and the new or digital age. Identify the devices used by people to communicate with each other, store information, and broadcast b roadcast information across the different ages.
April 14, 1912
If the Titanic sank somewhere somewher e in the Atlantic Ocean how so you think the news reached people in England and New York?
Titanic (1997) James Cameron, Cameron, dir.
If the Titanic sank today, in what format would people receive or read the news?
© Mike Keefe
Pre-Industrial Ag A ge (Before 1700s)
PRE-INDUSTRIAL AGE (befor (before e 1700s) •
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discovered fire developed paper from plants forged weapons & tools with stone, bronze, copper and iron
Cave Paintings (35,000 BC)
Papyrus in Egypt (2,500 BC)
Clay tablets in Mesopotamia (2,400 BC)
Ac 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 AD)
Industrial Age (1700s 1930s) –
INDUSTRIAL AGE (1700s–1930s) •
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used the power of steam developed machine tools established iron production, production, and the manufacturing of various products including books through the printing press
Printing press for mass production (19th century)
Newspaper The London Gazette (1640) –
Typewriter (1800)
Telephone (1876)
Alexander Graham Graham Bell patents the telephone. (Marc (March h 1876) 18 76) He may not have invented the telephone, but Alexander Graham Bell was the first to get a patent for it. Being able to speak to people over a telephone wire greatly changes the way the
Motion picture photography/ projection (1890)
Women having tea in Napier, New Zealand (ca.1890)
Muybridge used high-speed photography to make the first animated image sequences photographed in real-time (1878-1887)
Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon) [1904] Georges Méliès, dir.
Commercial motion pictures (1913)
Motion picture with sound (1926)
The Jazz Singer (1927) Alan Crosland, dir.
Telegraph
Punch cards
Electronic Age (1930s 1980s) –
ELECTRONIC ELECTRON IC AGE (1930s–1980s) •
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invention of the transistor harnessed the power of transistors led to the transistor radio, electronic circuits, and the early computers more efficient long distance communication
Transistor Radio
Large electronic computers i.e. EDSAC (1949) & UNIVAC 1 (1951) –
Electronic delay storage automatic calculat calc ulator or (EDSA (EDSAC), C), 1949
Universal Automatic Computer (UNIVAC), 1951
Mainframe computers i.e. IBM 704 (1960) –
An IBM 704 mainframe
Man and woman working with IBM type 704 electronic data processing machine used for making computations for aeronautical research. (1957)
Personal computers i.e. HewlettPackard 9100A (1968), Apple 1 (1976) –
First appearing in 1968, the Hewlett-Packard Hewlett-Packar d 9100A, a desktop calculator (as HP called it) was sold for only $4,900 (USD).
Released in 1976 by the Apple Computer Company, Apple Computer 1, 1, also known as Apple I or Apple-1, was designed and hand-built by Steve Wozniak (Steve Jobb’s (Steve Jobb’s friend) and was sold at $666.66 in July 1976.
OHP, LCD projectors
Information Age (1990s 2000s) –
INFORMA INFORM ATION AGE (1990s–2000s) •
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the Internet paved the way for faster communication & the creation of the social network microelectronics invention of personal computers, mobile devices, & wearable tech digitalized voice, image, sound & data
We are living in the information age.
Web browsers: Mosaic (1993), Internet Explorer (1995)
Mosaic (1993)
Internet Explorer (1995)
Blogs: Blogspot (1999), LiveJournal (1999), Wordpress (2003)
Social networks: Friendster (2002), Multiply (2003), Facebook (2004)
Microblogs: Twitter (2006), Tumblr (2007)
Video: YouTube (2005)
Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality
Video chat: Skype (2003), Google Hangouts (2013)
Search Engines: Google (1996), Yahoo (1995)
Portable computers: laptops (1980), netbooks (2008), tablets (1993)
Smart phones
Wearable technology
Cloud and Big Data
