MIL (week2) signals.
The signal will go through a channel
where intervention could occur, which is
October 21, 2020 called the noise. The noise could be
thunderstorms, or anything that could
distrupt the signals. After passing through
FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT the channel, the signal will now get to the
decoder which will convert it to messages.
1. The Titanic sank somewhere in the The messages will get to the reciever, which
Atlantic Ocean, the news reached is the final destination of the information.
people in England and New York Feedback could now be made which is the
because of the report made by the comment of the reciever and sender about
survivors. The report and how smooth/fast the message was
statements by each survivor was delivered. Example is texting through
taken into account and was soon messenger. Person A (the sender) would
published in newspapers and type a message and send it to person B (the
broadcasted through radios, reciever). It took a while for the person B to
allowing the news to further be recieve the message. It may be because it
spread around the world. was raining at that time or the because of
Information that time is spread the poor internet connection (noise) and
through the publishing information person B was complaining on how slow the
in newspapers and radios, or internet is (feedback).
through interviewing manually.
2. If the Titanic sank today, people
would recieve news via television, ACTIVITIES
radios, and also through online I. Media Research
platforms like social media. It could
also be through newspapers but its A. Pre-Industrial Age
becoming more common to look up
news online. Example is political Cave paintings (35,000BC)
issues. You could search it up online In prehistoric art, the term “cave
whenever you want and you could paintings” encompasses any parietal
already surf various information art which involves the application of
relating to it with just a click. It’s
colour pigments on the walls, floors
easier to access news and
information online nowadays. or ceilings of ancient rock shelters. A
monochrome cave paintings is a
picture made with only one colour
LOOKING BACK TO YOUR LESSON (usually black)
In Shannon-Weaver’s
Communication Model, the sender is the
source of information where as the encoder
(transmitter) will convert the message into
small sheets and then glued the
sheets together to make big pieces.
Clay tablets in Mesopotamia
(2400BC)
Printing press using wood blocks
In the Ancient Near East, clay tablets
(220AD)
(Akkadian ṭuppu) were used as a
Woodblock printing is a technique
writing medium, especially for
for printing text, images or patterns
writing in cuneiform, throughout the
used widely throughout East Asia
Bronze Age and well into the Iron
and originating in China in antiquity
Age. Cuneiform characters were
as a method of printing on textiles
imprinted on a wet clay tablet with a
and later paper. Prior to the
stylus often made of reed (reed
invention of woodblock printing,
pen).
seals and stamps were used for
making impressions.
Papyrus in Egypt (2500BC) B. Industrial Age
first papyrus was only used in Egypt,
but by about 1000 BC people all over Printing press for mass production
West Asia began buying papyrus (19th Century)
from Egypt and using it, since it was A printing press is a device for
much more convenient than clay applying pressure to an inked
tablets (less breakable, and not as surface resting upon a print medium
heavy!). People made papyrus in (such as paper or cloth), thereby
transferring the ink. The printing
press was invented in the Holy
Roman Empire by the German revolutionized long-distance
Johannes Gutenberg around 1440, communication. It worked by
based on existing screw presses. transmitting electrical signals over a
wire laid between stations.
Typewriter (1800)
The first typewriter to be Punch Cards (1890 census)
commercially successful was History of the punch card. The
invented in 1868 by Americans standard punched card, originally
Christopher Latham Sholes, Frank invented by Herman Hollerith, was
Haven Hall, Carlos Glidden and first used for vital statistics
Samuel W. Soule in Milwaukee, tabulation by the New York City
Wisconsin, although Sholes soon Board of Health and several states.
disowned the machine and refused After this trial use,punched cards
to use, or even to recommend it. were adopted for use in the 1890
census.
Motion Picture with sound (1913)
A sound film is a motion picture with
Telegraph (1830s) synchronized sound, or sound
Developed in the 1830s and 1840s technologically coupled to image, as
by Samuel Morse (1791-1872) and opposed to a silent film. In 1913,
other inventors, the telegraph Edison introduced a new cylinder-
based synch-sound apparatus
known, just like his 1895 system, as
the Kinetophone. By the mid-1910s,
the groundswell in commercial
sound motion picture exhibition had
subsided.
OHP, LCD projectors (1950)
Overhead projectors were used
early on for police work with a
cellophane roll over a 9-inch stage,
allowing facial characteristics to be
rolled across the stage. Overhead
projectors began to be widely used
in schools and businesses in the late
1950s and early 1960s.
C. Electronic Age
Transistor radio (1947)
A transistor radio is a small portable EDSAC (1949) and UNIVAC1 (1951)
radio receiver that uses transistor- EDSAC (Electronic Delay Storage
based circuitry. Following their Automatic Calculator) is an early
development in 1954, made possible British computer considered to be
by the invention of the transistor in the first stored program electronic
1947, they became the most popular computer.
electronic communication device in UNIVAC 1 (Universal Automatic
history Computer) s a line of electronic
digital stored-program computers
starting with the products of the
Eckert–Mauchly Computer
Corporation. Later the name was On August 23, 1999, Blogger was
applied to a division of the launched by Pyra Labs. As one of the
Remington Rand company and earliest dedicated blog-publishing
successor organizations. tools, it is credited for helping
popularize the format. In February
2003, Pyra Labs was acquired by
Google under undisclosed terms.
WordPress first appeared in 2003 as
a joint effort between Matt
Mullenweg and Mike Little to create
a fork of b2. Christine Selleck
Tremoulet, a friend of Mullenweg,
suggested the name WordPress.
Apple 1 (1976)
The Apple Computer 1, originally
released as the Apple Computer and
known later as the Apple I, or Apple-
1, is a desktop computer released by
the Apple Computer Company (now
Apple Inc.) in 1976. It was designed
and hand-built by Steve Wozniak.
Friendster (2002) and Multiply
(2003)
Friendster was founded by Canadian
D. Information Age computer programmer Jonathan
Abrams in 2002. Friendster.com
Blogspot (1999) and Wordpress went live in 2003 and was adopted
(2003) by 3 million users within the first
few months. Multiply was a social
networking service with an emphasis
on allowing users to share media –
such as photos, videos and blog
entries – with their "real-world"
network.
Facebook (2004)
Facebook was founded in 2004 by
Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin,
Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes,
all of whom were students at
Harvard University . Facebook
Web browser Mosaic (1993) became the largest social network in
Marc Andreessen and his team the world, with more than one
invented Mosaic (original NCSA billion users as of 2012, and about
page), the first popular Web half that number were using
browser, which greatly helped Facebook every day.
spread use and knowledge of the
web across the world.
Tumblr (2007)
Tumblr is an American
microblogging and social networking
website founded by David Karp in
2007 and currently owned by
Automattic. The service allows users
to post multimedia and other
content to a short-form blog.
II. Timeline
CHECK YOUR UNDERSTANDING
I. knowing your media in different ages
1. What format/equipment did people use
to communicate with each other?
Pre-Industrial Age: spoken from person to
person or to a group
Industrial Age: sending letters and
broadcasting
Electronic Age: telegraph, telegram,
telephone, computers
Information Age: gadgets and social media
2. What format/equipment did poeple use
to store information?
Pre-Industrial Age: Traditional paper and
writing materials, cave paintings, stone
tablets
Industrial Age: Printing press, books
Electronic Age: Printing press, books,
computers
Information Age: Digital books, personal
computers, Mobile phones
3. What format/equipment did people use
to share or broadcast information?
Pre-Industrial Age: traditional paper and
writing materials, cave paintings, stone
tablets
Industrial Age: Printing press, books,
newspapers, magazines
REFLECTION:
Electronic Age: Printing press, books,
1. The roles and functions of media in a
newspapers, magazines, personal
democratic society is the freedom of
computers, radio
information, this includes the freedom of
Information Age: Websites, digital books, speech and opinion. This helps the society
smart phones, social media improve by spreading awareness of issues
anf voicing out the opinions and concerns of
citizens. However since the anti-terrorism
SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT has been implemented, the so-called
freedom of speech is now being limited and
I. Classification can also be life-threatening depending on
what content the concern has.
2. Media has been a huge impact on my life.
This is where I voice out my opinions and
vent out my stress. It serves as an
entertainment to me as well as an
informatory platform to keep me updated
on social issues. This is also where I connect
with my friends, especially this quarantine.
Media also serves as a platform for
studying, as well as an inspiration for my
hobby. Media can be toxic if you make it to
be. In the end, it depends on how you use
it.
II. Picture Identification
1. Facebook
2. Telegraph
3. LCD projector
4. Cave painting
5. Typewriter
