MEDIA AND INFORMATION LITERACY
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MEDIA AND INFORMATION
LITERACY (MIL)
CHAPTER 2
THE EVOLUTION OF TRADITIONAL TO NEW MEDIA
PRE-INDUSTRIAL AGE (BEFORE 1700’s)
People discovered fire,
developed paper from plants,
and forged
weapons and tools with stone,
bronze, copper and iron.
Cave paintings (35,000
BC)
Clay tablets in Mesopotamia
(2400 BC)
Dibao in China (2nd Centu
Printing press using wood
blocks (220 AD)
Codex in the Mayan region
(5th Century)
INDUSTRIAL AGE (1700-1930)
People used the power of steam,
developed machine tools, established
iron production, and the
manufacturing of various products
(including books through the printing
press).
Printing press for mass
production (19 century)
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Newspaper- The London
Gazette (1640)
Typewriter (1800)
Telephone (1876)
Motion picture
photography/projection (1890)
Commercial Motion Pictures
(1913)
Motion Picture with Sound
(1926)
Telegraph
PUNCH CARD
electronic AGE (1930-1980’s)
The invention of the transistor ushered in the
electronic age. People harnessed the power of
transistors that led to the transistor radio,
electronic circuits, and the early computers. In
this age, long distance communication became
more efficient.
Transistor
Radio
Television (1941)
Large electronic computers
EDSAC (1949) and UNIVAC 1 (1951)
Mainframe computers
IBM 704 (1960)
Personal computers
Hewlett-Packard 9100A (1968), Apple 1 (1976)
OHP, LCD projectors
Information AGE (1900’s- 2000’s)
The Internet paved the way
for faster communication and
the creation of the social
network.
Web browsers:
Mosaic (1993), Internet Explorer
(1995)
Blogs:
Blogspot (1999), LiveJournal (1999), Wordpr
(2003)
Social networks:
Friendster (2002), Multiply (2003), Fac
(2004)
Microblogs
Twitter (2006), Tumblr (2007)
Video: YouTube
(2005)
Augmented Reality /
Virtual Reality
Search Engines:
Google (1996) Yahoo (1995)
Portable Computers
Laptops (1980), Netbooks (2008), Tabl
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