MRS. JACINE C.

YATCO
MIL TEACHER
WEEK 2
Explain how the evolution of media from traditional to new
media shaped the values and norms of people and society
Cave art is generally considered to have a symbolic or religious function,
sometimes both.
These cave wall paintings are known as pictographs and are found all over the
world alongside petroglyphs (the incised, pecked or cut designs on rock surfaces).

Developed in Ancient Mesopotamia, clay tablets were used for over 3,000 years.
Scribes used a reed stylus to impress characters in moist clay. The tablets were usually
dried in the sun or sometimes fired in kilns. Documents were often archived in libraries
where they could survive for millennia. Mesopotamians used clay for their
documents because cuneiform was written with a reed stylus by pressing the
pictographs into the clay; they needed a surface that was flexible. Yet clay was also “the
hardiest writing medium you can imagine,” Paulus says. “[Tablets] preserve really well.

The papyrus produced in Egypt was used for many purposes, but none more
important than its function as a writing material. Occasionally, individual sheets
were sold for the purpose of record keeping and lists, but the majority of these
sheets were fashioned and sold as scrolls.
Dibao (ti-pao), sometimes called headmen or constables,
were local officials in Qing and early Republican China,
typically selected from among the prominent landowners.
•A TELEGRAPH IS A
COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
THAT SENDS INFORMATION BY
MAKING AND BREAKING AN
ELECTRICAL CONNECTION. IT IS
MOST ASSOCIATED WITH SENDING
ELECTRICAL CURRENT PULSES
ALONG A WIRE WITH MORSE CODE
ENCODING.

•SPARK-GAP TELEGRAPH
•AS THE FIRST FORM OF WIRELESS
TECHNOLOGY, THE SPARK-GAP
TELEGRAPH ENABLED LONG
DISTANCE COMMUNICATION AND
CHANGED THE WAY PEOPLE
AROUND THE WORLD CONNECTED.
IN THE EARLY 1900S, THE SPARK-
GAP TELEGRAPH WAS MAINLY USED
ON MARITIME VESSELS, INCLUDING
THE FAMOUS ROYAL MAIL SHIP
(RMS) TITANIC