1. Media Timeline / Categories

2. Early Media Prehistoric – Example cave paintings (35,000 BC)
Oral Tradition – Example Native Stories
Scribal Culture – Ancient Egypt 3,000 BC (Hieroglyphics, Papyrus)
Paper – China 200 BC
Biblical Scribes BC

3. Print Media 1440 Printing Press – Print and Publication
(Bible… then others)
Journalism… books, newspapers, etc
photography
Advertising
Comics

4. Electrical Media
Telegraphy – Communication with coded signals (1800’s)
Telephony – Sounds between widely connected points (1870’s telephone)
Sound recording

5. Mass Media
Radio TV
Film

6. Digital Computing
Computing 1980’s
1990’s
Internet 1995

7. Personal Portable Media
Beginning in 2004…
Often driven by satellite devices
Ipods, cell phones, text messages, Black Berry, GPS

8. Multi Media is fast paced and changing
1988 – Electric typewriters are a LUXURY
1992 – Most people typed
Computers started to be used, but ran on DOS platform
1994 – Windows just introduced
1996 – Internet available for personal use
Computer may cost up to $2000 with a 1 GIG hard drive and 8 MB of RAM
1997- Cell phones large and very expensive.

9. 1998 – GPS used only in theory
Digital Cameras large with floppy disk drives. Poor quality
2000 – CD Discmans
2004 – Cell Phones (not that popular still…)
2008 – Ipods (for music), digital cameras, USB drives
…..Social Media… Facebook, Blogs, Twitter
Ipads…. More every day