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Notes in MITL (Lesson 2)

The document summarizes the evolution of traditional media to new media across four ages: the Pre-Industrial Age, Industrial Age, Electronic Age, and New/Information Age. In the Pre-Industrial Age, media included cave paintings and clay tablets. The Industrial Age saw developments like the printing press and newspaper. Transistors and electronics emerged in the Electronic Age, leading to radio, TV, and computers. Finally, the Internet in the New/Information Age enabled digital media like websites, social networks, videos, and mobile/wearable technology.

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Notes in MITL (Lesson 2)

The document summarizes the evolution of traditional media to new media across four ages: the Pre-Industrial Age, Industrial Age, Electronic Age, and New/Information Age. In the Pre-Industrial Age, media included cave paintings and clay tablets. The Industrial Age saw developments like the printing press and newspaper. Transistors and electronics emerged in the Electronic Age, leading to radio, TV, and computers. Finally, the Internet in the New/Information Age enabled digital media like websites, social networks, videos, and mobile/wearable technology.

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LESSON 2

The Evolution of Traditional to New Media

Evolution Of Media
Pre-Industrial Age (Before 1700) ➢ People harnessed the power of transistors
➢ People discovered fire, developed that led to the transistor radio, electronic
paper from plants, and forged circuits, and the early computers.
weapons and tools with stone, ➢ In this age, long distance communication
bronze, copper and iron has become more efficient.

Example Forms of Media: Example Forms of Media:


● Cave paintings (35,000 BC) ● Transistor Radio
● Clay tablets in Mesopotamia (2400 ● Television (1941)
BC) ● Large electronic computers
● Papyrus in Egypt (2500 BC) ● Mainframe computers – i.e. IBM 704
● Acta Diurna in Rome (130 BC) (1960)
● Dibao in China (2nd Century) ● OHP, LCD projectors
● Codex in Mayan region (5th Century)
● Printing press using wood block (220 New/Information Age (1900s to 2000s)
AD) ➢ The internet paved the way for faster
communication and the creation of the
Industrial Age (1700s to 1930s) social network.
➢ People used the power of steam, ➢ People advanced the use of personal
developed machine tools, computers, mobile devices, and wearable
established iron production, and the technology.
manufacturing of various products ➢ Moreover, voice, image, sound and data are
(including books through the digitized.
printing press) ➢ We are now living in the information age.

Example Forms of Media: Example Forms of Media:


● Printing press for mass production ● Web browsers: Mosaic (1993), Internet
(1900) Explorer (1995)
● Newspaper – The London Gazette ● Blogs: Blogspot (1999), Wordpress
(1740) (2003)
● Typewriter (1800) ● Social networks: Friendster (2002),
● Telephone (1876) Multiply (2003), FB (2004), Instagram
● Motion picture ● Microblogs: Twitter (2006), Tumblr
photography/projection (1890) (2007)
● Commercial motion pictures (1913) ● Video: YouTube (2005)
● Motion picture with sound (1926) ● Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality
● Telegraph ● Video chat: Skype (2003)
● Punch cards ● Search Engines: Google (1996), Yahoo
(1995)
Electronic Age (1930s to 1980s) ● Portable computers – laptops (1980),
➢ The invention of the transistor ushered in netbooks (2008), tablets (1993)
the electronic age. ● Smart phones
● Wearable technology
● Cloud and Big Data

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