WEEK 2

Group members: Dolor,Jemarc C.

Mercado, Elijah Brylle
Tuatis,Dan Ira James M.

Group Activity
Direction:Complete the table given below.
 What What What
format/equipment did format/equipment did format/equipment did
Age people use to people use to people use to share or
communicate with communicate with broadcast
each other? each other? information?
Pre-industrial Age In pre-industrial People began storing They used smoke
communities,oral direct knowledge by printing signals to broadcast
personal drawings on cave walls information back then
communication For the first time.They Like danger or some
predominated.The wrote on clay tablets sort of signal to alert
invention of the with a stylus after a the others;in terms of
printing press ushered few thousand years. broadcasting
in the industrialization information to us in
of communication this new world, they
used stones
papyrus,cave
paintings,rock carvings
and clay tablets.
Industrial Age Most people in this age Printing press or books They share or
used pen and paper broadcast information
and typewriter to by making a letter or
communicate with each information in papyrus
other people. material.In industrial
age they use Telegraph
or typewriter to
communicate each
other
Electronic Age Cellphones,pagers,voic The information was People harnessed the
e mail and email are stored in Computers. power of electricity
among the most lauded The transistor radio, that led to electrical
inventions of the 20th electronic circuits, and telegraphy, electrical
century, godsends that early computers were circuits and the early
allow on-the-go all created as a result large scale computers
individuals to of people harnessing (through vacuum
communicate with the potential of tubes, transistors and
business associates, transistors. integrated circuits). In
friends and family this age, long distance
members at any time, communication
at any place in the became possible.
world
Information Age People shared After that in electronic Information in the
information through age typewriter was Primary Information
the radio and television used and the Age was handled by
also. It is called the information was typed newspapers, radio and
information age on the paper. Now is television. The
because of the ease at the information age Secondary Information
which information can use store our data in Age was developed by
be accessed which was hard drives, pen drives the Internet, satellite
impossible before this. and memory cards etc. televisions and mobile
phones.
Answer the following questions:
1.Given the available media that we now have in the world, what are it’s roles and functions in a
democratic society?
-With the help of media we can be informed immediately about the issues of our society. We
can Search or gather good information and good news. We can also communicate by the use
of social media and can be source of entertainment

2. How will you describe the development of communication in the Philippines compare to the other
developing countries.
-We can say that the development of communication in the Philippines compared with other
countries is incompetent and poor which needs of progression and improvement in terms of
technical advancement and hi tech communication strategy to avoid mechanical shutdown
and signal interference

3. How do you think communication will evolve and affect Filipino society in the next 3 to 5 years?
-Communication in the Philippines can evolved by the influence of other countries.
Communication will be more advance and easier. Transactions in other countries can be more
efficient and easier