Titanic (April 14, 1912)

Titanic (April 14, 1912)
Questions
1. If the Titanic sank somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean, how do you

think the news reached people in England and New York at that time?
Telegraph and Telegram
Questions
2. If the Titanic sank today, in what format would people receive or

read the news?
Media and Information Literacy
T h e E v o l u t i o n o f T r a d i t i o n a l t o N e w M e d i a
PRE-INDUSTRIAL AGE
CONTENTS INDUSTRIAL AGE
ELECTRONIC AGE
INFORMATION AGE
1 Pre-Industrial Age
(Before 1700s)
PRE-INDUSTRIAL AGE (Before 1700s)
Pre-Industrial
Age
People discovered fire,
developed paper from
 Traditional paper and writing
plants, and forged materials, cave painting and
weapons and tools with stone tablets.
stone, bronze, copper
and iron.
PRE-INDUSTRIAL AGE (Before 1700s)
Examples:
Cave paintings (35,000 BC)
Clay tablets in Mesopotamia (2400 BC)
Papyrus in Egypt (2500 BC)
Acta Diurna in Rome (130 BC)
Dibao in China (2nd Century)
Printing press using wood blocks (220 AD)
Codex in the Mayan region (5th Century)
Lascaux Cave Paintings (15,000 - 17,000 yrs. old)
Clay Tablets of Mesopotamia (2400 BC)
Papyrus in Egypt (2500 Bc)
Dibao in China (2nd Century)
Codex in the Mayan region (5th Century)
2 Industrial Age
INDUSTRIAL AGE (Before 1700s)
Industrial Age
People used the power
of steam, developed
machine tools,
established iron  Printing press or books,
production, and the Newspaper/ magazines
manufacturing of various
products (including
books through the
printing press).
INDUSTRIAL AGE (Before 1700s)
Examples:
Printing press for mass production (19th century)
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 cards
Printing press for mass production (19th century)
Newspaper - The London Gazette
Typewriter (1800) Telephone (1876)
Motion picture photography/projection (1890)
Telegraph
3 Electronic Age
Electronic Age (1930s-1980s)
Electronic Age
The invention of the transistor
ushered in the electronic age.
People harnessed the power  Printing press or books,
of transistors that Computers, Radio,
led to the transistor radio, Newspaper/magazines,
electronic circuits, and the Personal computers
early computers. In this age,
long distance communication
became more efficient.
Electronic Age (1930s-1980s)
Examples:
Transistor Radio
Television (1941)
Large electronic computers- i.e. EDSAC (1949) and
UNIVAC 1 (1951)
Mainframe computers - i.e. IBM 704 (1960)
Personal computers - i.e. Hewlett_x0002_Packard 9100A
(1968), Apple 1 (1976)
OHP, LCD projectors
Transistor Radio
Television (1941)
Personal Computers - i.e Hewlett-Packard 9100A (1968), Apple 1 (1976)
OHP, LCD projectors
4
Information Age
or New Age
Information Age / New Age (1900s-2000s)
Information Age / New Age

The Internet paved the way for faster communication and the
creation of the social network. People
advanced the use of microelectronics with the invention of
personal computers, mobile devices, and wearable
technology. Moreover, voice,
image, sound and data are digitalized. We are now living in
the information age.
Information Age/ New Age
Printing press or books, Newspaper/ magazines, Television,

Radio, Digital books, Websites, Mobile phones, Smart
phones, Wearable technology, Social Media
 Examples:
 Web browsers: Mosaic (1993), Internet Explorer (1995)
 Blogs: Blogspot (1999), LiveJournal (1999), Wordpress (2003)
 Social networks: Friendster (2002), Multiply (2003), Facebook (2004)
 Microblogs: Twitter (2006), Tumblr (2007)
 Smart phones
 Video: YouTube (2005)
 Wearable technology
 Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality
 Cloud and Big Data
 Video chat: Skype (2003), Google
 Hangouts (2013)
 Search Engines: Google (1996), Yahoo (1995)
 Portable computers- laptops (1980), netbooks (2008), tablets (1993)
Web browsers: Mosaic (1993) and Internet Explorer (1995)
Social Networks (2002)
Smart phones

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1. If the Titanic sank somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean, how do you

2. If the Titanic sank today, in what format would people receive or

CONTENTS INDUSTRIAL AGE

Information Age / New Age

Information Age/ New Age

Printing press or books, Newspaper/ magazines, Television,

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