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Media Timeline / Categories. Early Media. Prehistoric – Example cave paintings (35,000 BC) Oral Tradition – Example Native Stories Scribal Culture – Ancient Egypt 3,000 BC (Hieroglyphics, Papyrus) Paper – China 200 BC Biblical Scribes 500-200 BC. Print Media.
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Early Media • Prehistoric – Example cave paintings (35,000 BC) • Oral Tradition – Example Native Stories • Scribal Culture – Ancient Egypt 3,000 BC (Hieroglyphics, Papyrus) • Paper – China 200 BC • Biblical Scribes 500-200 BC
Print Media • 1440 Printing Press – Print and Publication • (Bible… then others) • Journalism… books, newspapers, etc • 1814 -1843 photography • Advertising • Comics
Electrical Media • Telegraphy – Communication with coded signals (1800’s) • Telephony – Sounds between widely connected points (1870’s telephone) • Sound recording
Mass Media • Radio - 1905 • TV - 1950 • Film - 1891
Digital Computing • Computing 1980’s • Email 1990’s • Internet 1995
Personal Portable Media • Beginning in 2004… • Often driven by satellite devices • Ipods, cell phones, text messages, Black Berry, GPS
Multi Media is fast paced and changing • 1988 – Electric typewriters are a LUXURY • 1992 – Most people typed • Computers started to be used, but ran on DOS platform • 1994 – Windows just introduced • 1996 – Internet available for personal use • Computer may cost up to $2000 with a 1 GIG hard drive and 8 MB of RAM • 1997- Cell phones large and very expensive.
1998 – GPS used only in theory • 2000 - Digital Cameras large with floppy disk drives. Poor quality • 2000 – CD Discmans • 2004 – Cell Phones (not that popular still…) • 2008 – Ipods(for music), digital cameras, USB drives • …..Social Media… Facebook, Blogs, Twitter • Ipads…. More every day