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Definition.... ?
any means of communication intended to reach the general public . -
Print Media
print media started in the 20th century, and was the most dominant form of media! . anywhere from books, magazines, newsletters to newspapers. print media began with The Federalist papers, Which were published to promote the ratification of the constitution. -
Lets Talk Cell Phones
Martin Cooper, Is Responsible for our addiction to Cell Phones. kidding ... in 1973. They first sold in Japan. Cell phones were not commercially available in the United States until 1983. The Motorola DynaTAC was the first phone approved by the FCC. Cooper is also the first person to make a call on a cell phone. He called a rival, Dr Joel S Engel, who was also working on inventing a cell phone. -
zee internet.
in the 1950s Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn created the internet, setting standards for how data could be transmitted between multiple networks The Internet was the work of dozens of pioneering scientists, programmers and engineers who each developed new features and technologies that eventually merged to become the “information superhighway” we know today. -
how did it all start?
From sounds and symbols to written communication and language
Making sounds such as grunting or guttural sounds at a low pitch or high pitch would indicate either social communication or be a warning sign. Later written communication came about when humans realized the need to record their daily life activities. The ancient Egyptians were amongst the first people to use symbols as a form of written communication which later developed into the alphabet system that we know today -
Radio, the man with the plan !
1860s, Scottish physicist, James Clerk Maxwell predicted the existence of radio waves; and in 1886, German physicist, Heinrich Rudolph Hertz demonstrated that rapid variations of electric current could be projected into space in the form of radio waves similar to those of light and heat. Guglielmo Marconi sent and received his first radio signal in Italy in 1895. -
Televisión *Mustache Emoji*
Philo Farnsworth and John Logie Baird got together to make impossible, possible. Farnsworth made many contributions that were crucial to the early development of all-electronic television. and Baird, a Scottish inventor who had given the world's first public demonstration of a working television system in London in 1926. -
social media
as the internet and technology is thriving, social media was created along the way. with the help of several different scientists and engineers ! -
overall .
mass media has come a long way over the years, Helping us to communicate in the most effective and convenient way poissible! . although I only named a few forms of mass media. there are a ton I missed, such as Billboards, Blimps, Public Speaking (Outdoor Media), Cars, Trains, SkyWriting Etc. Look around. The Evidence is everywhere.
