We have been talking about media a lot lately but after all, where did media come from?

What’s the story of

its invention?
Although the term ‘media’ came into use only in the 1920s to denote the structures of such communication,
media history takes account of the period at least from the appearance of the handpress in the 15th century,
and some interpretations include the scriptoria, oral traditions, and wall paintings of medieval times.
- Mass media can be described as a diverse array of media technologies that approach a vast audience
via mass communication.
- The first newspapers appeared in the 17th century but, because few people were literate ,readership was
limited.
- By late in the 19th century, new technology allowed newspapers to print photographs.
- In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.
- In 1895, the Lumière brothers gave the first public demonstration of moving pictures in Paris.
- In 1901, an Italian inventor raised a radio antenna attached to a kite and received a radio signal from
Cornwall, England, 3,400 km away. Immediate communication without wires or cables was now
achievable.
- In 1920, a radio station in Pennsylvania went on the air to report the results of that year’s presidential
election.
- The invention of the compact cassette in the 1960s, gave a major boost to the mass circulation of music
recordings, and the invention of digital recording and the compact disc which as we know today is the cd in
1983 which brought massive improvements.
- Mobile phones were introduced in Japan in 1979 but became a mass media only in 1998 when the first
downloadable ringing tones were included in Finland
- In 1998, Tim Burns Lee invented the World Wide Web.
- Also in 1998, the Google search was invented and the way people use the internet was modified forever.
- In 2004, Facebook went online and the whole social networking phenomenon began.
- In the last century, a revolution in telecommunications has greatly altered communication by providing
new media for long-distance communication.
- Modern communication media now allow for deep long-distance exchanges between larger numbers of
people. On the other hand, many traditional broadcast media and mass media favor one-to-
many communication (television, cinema, radio, newspaper, magazines, and also social media).
Children today are encouraged to use media tools in school and are expected to have a general
understanding of the various technologies available. The internet is arguably one of the most effective tools
in media.
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The Internet has turned our existence upturned It has revolutionized communications, to the extent that it is
now our preferred medium of everyday communication.
- today a click or two is enough to read your local newspaper and any news source from around the world,
updated up to the second.
- The Internet is no longer only concerned with information exchange: it is a sophisticated tool enabling
people to create content, communicate with one another, and even escape reality.
- The rise of the Internet has stimulated a debate about how online communication affects social
relationships.
every 60 seconds on the internet:
 500 hours of YouTube videos are uploaded;
 3.3 million Facebook posts are made;
 3.8 million Google searches are started;
Correlation between the 9/11 and the media
Documentation of the media:
 Some of the victims were able to document their own experiences or the experiences of others
and created well known portraits and videos to document the attacks and their trauma.
 The media produced during and after the attacks were used to help identify victims, for
investigations into the attacks and to document the attacks for history amongst other reasons.
 Many media forms were used, specifically photography and videography from people on the
streets or surrounding areas.
 The large spread of images and video along with the long-term impact on the population
caused many of the visual media to be in the top of the list of performances given recognition in
mid-2002.
 In broadcast journalism, the Peabody Awards went to channels documentation of the attacks,
and the Pulitzer Prizes were awarded to six events around the attacks including two
in photography.[1]
 A lot of movies and tv shows started mentioning the attack as it had a lot of representation on
media such as the movie: Zero Dark Thirty.
 Many channels devoted 24 hour-7 days a week coverage to the attacks, as the significance of
the damage was assessed, the potential for more attacks subsided, and important revelations into
the roles of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida became known.[19]
 This was a story so shocking, so tragic, so monumental in its impact that it would change the
way journalists covered the world, at least for a time.
 For 93 straight hours, broadcast networks reported the news of the attack