Week 3

Question 1

What is the famous world event that
happened on April 14, 1912?

Answer 1

The sinking of the RMS Titanic

Question 2

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?

Answer 2

Telegraph

Question 3

If the Titanic sank today, in what format would people receive or read the news?

Answer 3

breaking news alerts on social media, news websites, television, and radio

Question 4

Pre-Industrial Age (Before 1700’s)

He was the original marathon runner who carried the message of victory from the Battle of Marathon to Athens.

Answer 4

PHEIDIPPIDES (490 BC)

Question 5

In this age, People had learned or discovered fire, developed paper from plants, and forged weapons and tools with stone, bronze, copper and iron.

Answer 5

Pre-Industrial Age (Before 1700’s)

Question 6

Enumeration

Examples of different forms of
Media in Pre-Industrial Age

Answer 6

Cave Paintings (35,000BC)
Papyrus In Egypt(2500BC)
Clay Tablets In Mesopotamia(2400BC)
Acta Diurna in Rome(130BC)
Dibao In China (2nd Century)
Codex In The Mayan Region (5th Century)
Printing press using wood blocks (220 AD)

Question 7

Include the year

This is were people discovered the used of power steam, developed machine tools, established iron production, and the manufacturing of various products (including books through the printing press)

Answer 7

Industrial Age (1700s-1930s)

Question 8

Enumeration

What are the examples of different forms of
Media in Industrial Age?

Answer 8

• Printing Press for mass production (19th Cent)
• Newspaper- The London Gazette (1640)
• Typewriter (1800)
• Teegraph
• Motion Pictures Photography/Projection (1890)
• Commercial Motion Pictures w / sound (1913)
• Punch Cards
• Telephone (1876)

Question 9

Did you know……?

What is the first words ever spoken on the telephone?

Answer 9

“Mr. Watson - Come here - I want to see you”

• Alexander Graham Bell

Question 10

The invention of the transistor ushered
in the electronic age.

People harnessed the power of transistors that led to the transistor rad

Answer 10

Electronic Age (1930s-1980s)

Question 11

Enumeration

What are the examples of different forms of Media in Electronic Age?

Answer 11

• Transistor (1947)
• Television (1941)
• Transistor Radio (1947)
• OHP (PROJECTOR) (1950
• IBM 1401 (1959) - First Popular Transistorized Mainframe
• Personal computers
• Floppy Disk (1970)
• Apple 1 (1976)
• Walkman (1980)

Question 12

The internet paved the way for faster communication and the creation of the socialnetwork. 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.

Answer 12

Information Age (1900s-2000s)

Question 13

Example forms of Media in Information Age

Answer 13

• 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 Technologies