Media timeline

Printing press, 1450

Typewriter, 1500

Sep 25 1694, very first newspaper

Film, 1894

Radio, 1895

Computers, 1938

Video tape, 1958

Aug 1^st 1967 digital production

Internet, 1990

Social media, 2000

Phones evolving

-Newspaper: The first type of moving printing press was made in 1440 in Europe, Germany by Johannes Gutenberg. The first newspaper with pictures started on the Daily Graphic on March 4, 1880

-Magazine: The first magazine was released in 1633 in Germany and the first woman magazine was released in 1693 in London.

-Radio: The first forms of radio transmitters and receivers were made around 1895 but was used commercially around the year 1900’s.

-Advertising: The first form of modern advertising started in the 1920’s and the one who had most significance was Edward Bernays

-Cinema: The earliest movie found in working condition was a two second film called Roundhay Garden Scene which was directed by Louis Le Prince who was a French inventor.

-TV: The start of television was around late 1920’s and early 1230’s in America, the first channel was called W3XK created by one of the inventors of mechanical television Charles Francis Jenkins and the first TV broadcast was on July 2, 1928.

-Video games: The start of video games was the early 1970’s and the first commercial arcade video game was introduced the year 1971.

-Online: The start of the internet was around the year 1960 with ARPANET which was originally funded by the U.S Department of Defense.

What is media?

Media is the means of mass communication via ‘publishing or broadcasting’

What is Media studies?

Media studies is the study of media through looking at different forms. For example; Film,Video games,newspapers,

Evolution of Media 

 Printing Press 1440 – This machine was able to print a large amount of newspapers and books which was an effective way to spread information and communicate with people.  

 Magazines 1663 – The earliest example of magazines was Erbauliche Monaths Unterredungen, which was a literary and philosophy magazine, launched in Germany. 

 Radio 1896 – A man called Guglielmo Marconi an Italian inventor, proved the feasibility of radio communication. He sent and received his first radio signal in Italy in 1895. 

 Cinema 1895 – The first to present projected moving pictures to a paying audience were the Lumière brothers in December 1895 in Paris. 

 TV 1927 – The world’s first electronic television was created by a 21 year old inventor named Philo Taylor Farnsworth. 

Video game 1958- Physicist William Higinbotham created what is thought to be the first video game. It was a very simple tennis game, similar to the classic 1970s video game Pong.  

Mobile phone 1973- Martin Cooper of Motorola made the first publicized handheld mobile phone call on a prototype DynaTAC model. 

Computer 1975- Ed Roberts coined the term “personal computer” when he introduced the Altair 8800. 

What is Media?

Media is a form of communication that is delivered through many different forms such as Magazines, Television and Newspapers

What is Media Studies?

Media Studies is the study that deals with many different forms of communication and how things are dealt differently throughout the different forms of communication.

What is Media?

Media is the transfer of communication through different platforms so like film, video and news

What is Media Studies?

The study of the media through different forms of communication and learning the effects of media

What is the point of Media?

There is a point to media studies as the media affects the communication across the world and how information conveyed in society

What do I want to learn in Media?

In Media I want to leam about how to analyse different forms of medicine as well as how different genres and platforms affect different audiences