Information Age Flashcards
(37 cards)
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- Computer Age, Digital Age, New Media Age, Internet Age
- historic period in the 21st century characterized by the rapid shift from traditional industry that the Industrial Revolution brought through industrialization, to an economy based on information technology.
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INFORMATION AGE
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- newspaper, radio, television.
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Primary Information Age
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Early Developments of Information Age :
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- 1945
- 1965
- Early 1980
- 1995
- Primary Information Age
- Secondary Information Age
- Tertiary Information Age
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- production of the smaller and less expensive personal computers allowed for direct access to information.
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Early 1980
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- Fremont Rider described the miniaturized microform analog photographs, which could be duplicated on-demand for library patrons and other institutions.
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1945
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- Moore’s law was formulated. It is an observation that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles about every two years.
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1965
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- identified and studied radio waves in 1886
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Heinrich Hertz
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- time before there were machines and tools to help them perform the tasks.
- About 2.5 million years before writing was developed, technology began with the earliest hominids who used stone tools, which they may have used to start fires, hunt, and bury their dead.
- Communications were limited between communities.
- People used traditional paper and writing materials, signs or symbols to communicate with each other. For example, Egyptians used papyrus scrolls. Sumerians used clay tablets
- Pre-historic men used hand stencils and simple geometric shapes to create art on he walls of caves
- Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press during Renaissance period
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Pre-industrial Age
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- Nicholas Negroponte published his book, Being Digital, the similarities and differences between products made of atoms and bits.
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1995
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- Internet, satellite television and mobile phones
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Secondary Information Age
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Communication during the Industrial Age
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- Samuel F.B Morse
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Thomas Edison
- Heinrich Hertz
- Guglielmo Marcon
- Philo Farnsworth
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- encompasses the changes in economic and social organization that began around 1760 in Great Britain and later in other countries, characterized chiefly by the replacement of hand tools with power-driven machines such as the power loom and the steam engine, and by the concentration of industry in large establishments.
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Industrial Age (1700-1930)
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- emerged by media of the Primary Information Age interconnected with media of the Secondary Information Age.
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Tertiary Information Age
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- first mass produced computer with floating-point arithmetic hardware.
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IBM
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- patent the telephone, an electric tool transmitting analogue speech along wires.
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Alexander Graham Bell
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- began when electronic equipment and large technologies, including computers came into use.
- The invention of the transistor ushered in the electronic age.
- People harnessed the power of transistors that led to the transistor radio, electronic circuits, and the early computers.
- In this age, long distance communication became more efficient.
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Electronic Age (1930-1980)
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- invented the telegraph which became the standard for international communication with a modified code.
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Samuel F.B Morse
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- piece of spook hardware used as a way of deciphering German signals traffic during World War Two.
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Enigma machine
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- first stored program electronic computer
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EDSAC (Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator
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- invented the phonograph, a device for the mechanical recording and reproduction of sound.
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Thomas Edison
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- developed the first practical radio transmitters and receivers.
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Guglielmo Marconi
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- invented the first fully electronic television. It became an important mass medium for advertising, propaganda and entertainment.
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Philo Farnsworth
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- line of electronic digital stored-program computers.
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UNIVAC (Universal Automatic Computer)
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- led to the creation of other media tool.
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Transistor
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- became the most popular electronic communication and device in history.
Transistor radio
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- first electronic general purpose digital computer.
ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer)
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- removal magnetic storage medium.
Floppy disk
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- early computer or programmable calculator
Hewlett Packard 9100A
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- originally used for portable audio cassette players.
Walkman
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* People advanced the use of microelectronics with the invention of personal computers, mobile devices, and wearable technology. Moreover, voice, image, sound and data are digitalized. We are now living in the information age.
Information Age (1900-2000)
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* created by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim. It is an online video-sharing platform.
* allows users to view, upload, share, report, subscribe and comments on videos
YouTube
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* founded by Mark Zuckerberg and his fellow roommates and students.
* popular global social networking website.
* offers other products and services such as Facebook Messenger, Facebook Watch and Facebook Portal.
Facebook Inc.
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* discontinued Macintosh portable computer developed and sold by Apple Inc.
* includes a Retina display, fanless design and a shallower butterfly keyboard and a single USB-C port for power and data.
MacBook
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* based on multinational technology company that specializes in internet-related services and products,
* include software, hardware, online advertising, a search engine and cloud computing
Google LLC
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* develops, manufactures, licenses, supports and sells computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers and related services.
Microsoft Corporation
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* space dependent
* controlling channel
* scarcity
* institutions
* content and audience = mass
* producer split from consumer
* quality = perfection and precision of execution and message
* controlled / restricted
gutenberg
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* time dependent
* controlling liberated content
* abundance
* process
* content and audience = micro
* "prosumer"
* quality = authenticity of communication and credibility of story
* transparent
post gatenberg
