Types of
Media:
Traditional Media:
Transmission:
When audio waves and/or light waves
travel through a medium which forms
moving images and audible sentences
also known as most broadcast media.
Television:
A broadcast media that communicates
information through animated pictures
and immersive sounds.
Print Media:
A portable paper publication that provides
the latest information from the most
important news (newspapers) to celebrity
gossip (magazines).
New Media:
Any media presented through a digital channel.
It consists of the latest innovations in the way media is delivered and
the way it is used to communicate with others (i.e. one where
consumers can interact directly with media creators and their works
directly).
Internet:
A global “network of networks” that has
allowed communication, commerce, and
entertainment to spread and proliferate over
long distances.
Email:
A modernized version of mail that uses
electronics to send and receive messages
that come from different parts of the
internet.
Social media:
A virtual mode of written communication that
can reach long distances which is
supplemented by videos, audios, and other
types of media.
Billboard:
An elevated board where advertisements
are shown usually to passing drivers. Its
paper equivalent is known as a flyer.
Radio:
A broadcast media that can use audio
signals to transmit information over long
distances in places that most media
sources cannot be used.
Mail:
A letter or package sent through a post
office to be delivered to the recipient
days later.
Blog:
A virtual document or a collection of virtual
documents that detail either the author’s
personal anecdotes or particular learnings. If
it is in video form, then it becomes a vlog.
Podcast:
A digital series of audios that can tell
entertaining stories or inform the
audience about a variety of topics: both
recent and old.
Artificial Intelligence:
An artificial creation created to have a human
being’s intelligence which helps it generate
new kinds of media via the use of constantly
evolving algorithms.