Pondering what media is? Here are two videos to start you cogitating:
I promised you two videos, and did post two. But the last one was pulled out of YouTube. So you'll just have to click on the video "Did You Know 3.0" that appears at the end of the video above.

"Did You Know 4.0" shows how far technology has brought media into the 21st century. How these technology has changed how we communicate in this time and age.

Way back in college, this idea of having the capability -- right there at your fingertips -- to send a message to a friend on the other side of the globe was totally unimaginable. Calling someone overseas meant going to the local telephone company, and queuing up for your turn at the phone booth. Now a text or a video call is just a send or call button away.

But of course, my college students can't relate to this experience since they were born into and grew up in a world when all these changes were taking place.

But consider this media milestones time line:
  • 200,000-100,000 BC Language developed
  • 3500 BC Writing was invented
  • 1500 AD Printing press was invented
  • 1800 AD Photography/motion pictures were invented
  • 1800 AD (later part) Telephone/telegraph were invented
  • 1900 AD (early part) Radio/TV were invented
  • 1900 AD (mid part) Digital media was invented
  • 2000 AD Handheld wireless media was invented
If you notice, there's that big time lag between the development of language and the invention of writing, and another time lag from the invention of writing to the invention of printing. From printing, there was a shorter time lag before the next milestone. And from then on, media technology grew by leaps and bounds.

And by the rate new technologies are being invented -- with newer versions coming almost every quarter of a year at the least -- you can just imagine how our ways of communicating through media is changing.

So that's really what we'll be exploring this term -- how media has developed through all these years, how these changes have affected our mode and manner of communicating, and how we have found new ways of sharing ideas or expressing ourselves because of these new technologies at hand.

And how our new ways of communicating have created the need for ever newer media forms.
 


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    MEDA 101

    MEDA 101 or "Media History, Development, and Theories" is a three unit course that looks into the history and development, nature, operation, and theories of different media. This course serves as the prerequisite for higher Media Arts courses. Prerequisite to the course in COMA 101 Introduction to Communication Theories.

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