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History of Mass Communication

Mass communication has developed over the past 500 years alongside new technologies like printing presses, radio, television, and the internet. Books were one of the earliest mass communication methods, dating back to ancient Egypt in 1400 BC, though printing presses enabled mass production in the 1450s. Newspapers emerged as one of the oldest mass media forms in ancient Rome nearly 2000 years ago. Electronic media developed more rapidly in the early 20th century with inventions like radio in the 1920s and television in the 1940s, followed by expanded broadcasting and new forms of internet communication.

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History of Mass Communication

Mass communication has developed over the past 500 years alongside new technologies like printing presses, radio, television, and the internet. Books were one of the earliest mass communication methods, dating back to ancient Egypt in 1400 BC, though printing presses enabled mass production in the 1450s. Newspapers emerged as one of the oldest mass media forms in ancient Rome nearly 2000 years ago. Electronic media developed more rapidly in the early 20th century with inventions like radio in the 1920s and television in the 1940s, followed by expanded broadcasting and new forms of internet communication.

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History of Mass Communication

Mass Communication primarily developed in just the last 500 years. Its
history is stretched around the emergence of books, newspapers, radio,
television, and the internet.

Let’s take a look at the history of Mass Communication in more detail;

 Books are one of the oldest and the first source of communication,
the first known book was written in Egypt around 1400 B.C. Books
were earlier not produced in bulk due to the lack of appropriate
technology. The first printing press was invented in 1455.
 Newspapers are considered to be the oldest mass medium. Some
kind of News-sheets called ‘Acta Diurna’ appeared in 100 B.C. in
Rome, containing some political information which was placed on
the roman square roughly 400 to 500 years ago.
 The development of magazines was also a bit slow. The term
magazine is derived from the French word “Magasin”. The earliest
magazine was a German magazine named, Erbauliche Monaths-
Unterredunge which was started by Johann Rist, he was a
theologian as well as a poet of Hamburg.
 Electronic media developed more quickly than other media. The
emergence of Radio took place in the 1920s.
 Television came later in the 1940s, later followed by several
developments in the field of broadcasting and the emergence of
cable television and satellite communications.
 The mass medium used in today’s era is the Internet, which totally
changed communication patterns. The Internet emerged on January
1, 1983.

Historical Facts About Mass Communication


 Basic Printing Technology was invented in 800AD.
 The invention of Gutenberg’s Printing Press in 1455.
 The first Weekly Printed Newspaper was developed in Antwerp in
1605.
 The invention of the Radio by Marconi in 1895.
 The invention of the Television by John Logie Baird in 1925.
 The Internet (the World Wide Web) is invented by Tim Berners Lee
in 1990.
 Wilbur Schramm is known as the “Father of Mass Communication”.

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