Media: Then & Now

Pre-industrial

 Ancient civilizations – oral tradition

 Archeologists – symbols/drawing crude pics (Chauvet cave paintings in Southern France)
 Africa/South or Native America – bark of trees, animal bones, sticks
 Mesopotamia – clay + stone tablets (code of Hammurabi)
 Ancient Egyptians – papyrus
 Chinese & Koreans – woodblocks
Industrial

 Printing press – newspaper (1st newspaper – The Bofton News-Letter)

 Magazines (The American Magazine)
 Image recording + photography
 Louis Daguerre – polaroid
 George Eastman – Kodak camera
 Samuel Morse – telegraph
 Alexander Graham Bell – telephone
 Thomas Edison – phonograph + kinetoscope
 Elridge Jhonson – motor system
 Auguste & Louis Lumiere – Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station (cinematography)
 James Clerk Maxwell – em waves
 Heinrich Hertz – radio waves
 Edouard Branly & Oliver Lodge – radio wave frequency
 Guglielmo Marconi – radio system
 Philo Fransworth – tv
Electronic Age

 Fax machine + cellphone

 Cable and satellite tech
 Cassette tape + vinyl records
 Sony Walkman
 VCD
Digital Age

 Computers
 Steve Jobs & Wozniak + Bill Gates
 DSLR