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    Subject: Media and Information Literacy

    Topic: The Evolution of Media from Traditional to New Media


    I. Terms and Important Names and Dates

    Telegraph – developed by Samuel Morse (1844)

    Telephone – invented and patented by Graham Bell (1876)

    Radio – credited by Guglielmo Marconi

    Philo Taylor Fransworth – successfully demonstrated the first television signal transmission on
    September 7, 1927.

    ARPANET – Advanced Research Projects Agency Network

    Pervasiveness -present or noticeable in every part of a thing or place

    Mass Media – refer to channel of communication that involve transmitting information in some way,
    shape or form to large numbers of people.

    Demassification – derived from the word demasify which means to divide or break up (a social or
    political unit) into its components parts.

    II. Main Periods in the History of Communication

    Prehistoric Age Industrial Age

    Cave paintings considered medium of communication Early form of printing press in industrial age. during
    prehistoric age.

    Electronic Age Information Age

    Television is one of the media that was invented The discovery of Internet has changed the media
    electronic age. habits and lifestyle of the users and
    producers of information.

    Images are fromnovite.com/ Britannica.com / commons.wikimedia.org / freepik.com


    III. The Importance of Media

    Pervasiveness

    Binding influence MEDIA Information


    sources

    Persuasion Forum Entertainment


    source

    The value of Media

    IV. Four Essential Characteristics of Mass Media

    Technology Scale

    MASS MEDIA

    Distance Commodity

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