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Media and Information Literacy Part 1 2
Media and Information Literacy Part 1 2
Clay tablets (2400 BC) Morse code- The earliest form of telegraph
-Mesopotamian scribes recorded daily events,
trade, and astronomy and literature on clay Telephone (1876)
tablets A telecommunications device that permits two or
-This was served as Bulletin Board more users to conduct a conversation when they
are too far apart to be heard directly.
Cuneiform was used by people throughout the Invented by Alexander Grahambell
ancient Near East to write several different
languages Alexander Grahambell, he patented an device not
just to transfer a call or signal from one person to
particular person or from one point or particular
point. He invented an machine or a tool would
clear transfer from a human voice
Acta Diurna in Rome (130 BC) From one person to another person
The telegraph of Ancient Rome.
Alfred Vail and Samuel mores who also introduced The Electronic delay storage automatic
telegraph to the world. Telephone was also calculator(EDSAC)- 1949 a computer contructed
introduced. by Maurice Wilkes and his team. EDSAC was the
second electronic digital stored program
Punch cards (1890) computer to go into regular service.
A card perforated according to a code, for
controlling the operation of a machine. Originally The UNIVAC 1- 1951 (UNIVersal Automatic
invented by Herman Hollerith was first used for Computer 1) was the first commercial computer.
vital statistic tabulation by the New York City
Board of Health. It was designed principally by J.Presper Eckert and
John Mauchly, the inventors of the ENIAC.
Motion picture photography/projection (1890)
-When the still pictures are projected Mainframe computers
progressively and rapidly onto a screen, the eye Used primarily by large organizations for critical
perceives a motion, hence they become a motion applications; bulk data processing, such as census,
picture. industry and consumer statistics, enterprise
-One of the oldest of modern imaging resource planning and transaction processing
technologies.
IBM 704 (1954)
Printing press for mass production (19th Century) A large-scale,high-speed electronic calculator
-Is a device for applying pressure to an inked controlled by an internally stored program of the
surface resting upon a print medium (paper or single address type.
cloth), thereby transferring the ink.
Projector
Commercial modern picture (1913) -An object used to project rays of light onto
-Also called film or movie series of still screen
photographs on film, projected in rapid succession -Developed by Alexandre-Edmund
onto a screen by means of light Becquerel(1853)
-Invented by Jules Duboscq(1866)
Motion picture with sound(1926)
Vitaphone Sound system by Warner Brothers Personal computers
First motion picture with a synchronized A computer designed for use by one person at a
soundtrack was entitled “Don Juan”, directed by time
Alan Crosland.
HP 9100 A (1968)
An early programmable calculator
LESSON 2
EVOLUTION OF TRADITIONAL TO NEW MEDIA Altair 8800(1975)
A microcomputer designed by MITS( Micro
Electronic Age (1930s-1980s) Instrumentation and Telemetry System) and
The invention of the transistor ushered in the based on the Intel 8080 processor.
electronic age. People harnessed the power of
transistors that led to the transistor radio, Apple 1(1976)
electronic circuits, and the early computers. In A desktop computer designed and hand-built by
this age, long distance communication became Steve Wazniak
more efficient.
Information Age (1900s-2000s)
Transistor Radio (1954) The internet paved the way for faster
A small portable radio receiver that uses communication and the creation of the social
transistor-based circuitry network. People advanced the use of
The Regency TR-1 was the first practical transistor microelectronics with the invention of personal
radio made in any significant number by Texas computes, mobile device, and wearable
Instruments technology. Moreover,voice,image,sound and
data are digitalized.
Television (1920)
A telecommunication medium used for Web browsers- a software application for
transmitting moving images in monochrome accessing information on the World Wide Web
(black and white), or in color, and in two or three
dimensions and sound Blogs- A regularly updated website or web page,
that is written in an informal or conversational
Mechanical Television(1920) style.
Invented by John Logie Baird and Charles Francis
Jenkins Social Network- A social structure made up of a
set of social actors set of dyadic ties and other
social interaction.
Electronic Television(1927) Microblogs- Social media sites which a user makes
Invented by Philo Taylor Formsworth short,frequent posts.
Augmented Reality(2008)
A technology that superimposes a computer
generated image on a user’s view of the real
world. Thus providing a composite view.
Virtual Reality(2016)
An experience taking place within simulated and
immersive environments that can be similar from
the real world.