Evolution of Media
Evolution of Media
Evolution of Media
INFORMATION
LITERACY
THE EVOLUTION OF MEDIA
“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?”
“Ifthe Titanic sank today, in
what format would people
receive or
read the news?”
Pre-Industrial Age (Before 1700s)
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)
• Video: YouTube (2005)
• Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality
• Video chat: Skype (2003), Google
Hangouts (2013)
• Search Engines: Google (1996), Yahoo
(1995)
• Portable computers- laptops (1980),
netbooks (2008), tablets (1993)
• Smart phones
• Wearable technology
• Cloud and Big Data
• Microblogs: Twitter (2006), Tumblr (2007)
• Video: YouTube (2005)
• Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality
• Video chat: Skype (2003), Google
Hangouts (2013)