L2 Flashcards
Media Evolution
Prehistoric Age, Industrial Age, Electronic Age, Information Age
Before 1700s, earliest form of traditional media
Prehistoric Age
Also known as parietal art. Numerous paintings and engravings found on cave walls or ceilings around 38 000 BCE
Cave Paintings
Cave paintings also known as?
Parietal art
When did the numerous paintings and engravings were found?
38 000 BCE
Made from dye
Pictographs
Made by engraving
Petroglyphs
What era is petroglyphs?
Prehistoric age
What era is pictographs?
Prehistoric age
Used as a writing medium of cuneiform
Clay tablets
Made from papyrus plant. Used as a writing surface to designate documents
Papyrus
1700s to 1930s. Started in Great Britain; technology shifted from using hand tools to operating power-driven machines
Industrial Age
Where did the Industrial age start?
Great Britain
Who invented the printing press?
Johannes Gutenberg
What did Samuel Morse invent?
Telegraph, Morse code
Who invented motion picture?
Eadweard J. Muybridge
1930s to 1980s. Equipment are more complex as they run on electricity instead of fuel
Electronic Age
Give examples of tools used in electronic age
Portable Transistor Radio, Television, Cassette Tape, Polaroid, ENIAC, IBM Personal Computer
1900s - 2000s. Advanced use of microelectronics with the invention of mobile devices. Voice image, sound, and data are digitalized.
New/Information/Digital Age
Tools in Digital age
Portable computers, smart phones, wearable technology, virtual reality, augmented reality, web browsers, blogs, social networking site
Tools in Industrial Age
Telegraph, Typewriter, Telephone, Printing Press
