THE EVOLUTION OF TRADITIONAL
MEDIA TO NEW MEDIA
MEDIA and INFORMATION LITERACY (MIL)
After going through this lesson, you are expected to:
1. Identify traditional media and new media and their
relationships.
2. Explain how the evolution of media from traditional to new
media shaped the values and norms of people in the society.
3. Editorialize the roles and functions of media in democratic
society.
4. Search latest theory on information and media.
The Evolution of Traditional Media to New Media
Prehistoric Age
• It refers to the time before the existence of written or
recorded history.
• It spans from approximately 2.5 million years ago to
1,200 B.C
Prehistoric Age
• It also known as Stone Age and the Metal Age. They
are called such because of the kind of tools that the
prehistoric people used during those times. The tools
were relatively crude, archeologist believe that a
system of writing has not yet existed during this era.
Prehistoric Age
• The prehistoric men learned how to sharpen their
tools and use them for hunting, they also acquired
the knowledge on how to use these materials in
carving stones. Eventually, this paved the way for
them to create a system of writing, which marked the
start of the historic period.
Prehistoric Age
• The Clay tablets in Mesopotamia (2400 BC),
the early writing tablet recording the
allocation of beer.
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Press using wood blocks (220 AD), originated
in China, it is technique for printing text,
images or patterns used widely throughout
East Asia.
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Prehistoric Art as the Earliest Form of Traditional Media
• During the Stone Age, prehistoric people also used
these crude stone tools to create objects, which are
now considered rock art.
• The two kinds of rock art during the Stone Age are
petroglyphs and pictographs.
Prehistoric Art as the Earliest Form of Traditional Media
• Petroglyphs - can be
carving or engravings in
rocks or caves
Prehistoric Art as the Earliest Form of Traditional Media
• Pictographs - represent
words or phrases through
symbols. Used to refer to
sketches or paintings that
usually depict nature, early
people’s way of life.
Prehistoric Art as the Earliest Form of Traditional Media
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Prehistoric Art as the Earliest Form of Traditional Media
• Oyayi (Song) - a cradle
song or piece of music
that is usually played for
children.
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Prehistoric Art as the Earliest Form of Traditional Media
• Cañao (Dance Offering) – also
known as Kanyaw is a festival
or a ceremony of the
indigenous people of Northern
Luzon. It is a socio-religious
ritual where chickens, pigs
and/or carabaos are butchered
as a sacrifice and feasted on.
This is usually thanksgiving to
their God Kabunyan/Kabunian.
Industrial Age
• The Industrial Age began in the 18th century in Great
Britain when the country made drastic reforms to
improve their economy.
• Technology shifted from using hand tools to operating
power-driven machines. Most people associated
factories and machines to industries.
Industrial Age
• Selling of goods boosted during the Industrial Age. The
concept of mass production or manufacturing of goods
in large quantities was introduced, increasing the
demand for bigger and better machines. Special
machines were fabricated to meet the specific needs of
different factories.
Industrial Age
• The Industrial Age has
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improved the people’s
way of living as new
inventions such as
steamboats and steam
locomotives, made
transportation faster.
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Industrial Age
Printing Press for Mass
Production (19th Century)
• When the steam
printing press was
invented, the printing
of materials like
newspapers became
much faster, cheaper
and easier.
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Industrial Age
• Communication during the
Industrial Age also became
viable because of the
invention of the telegraph.
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Industrial Age
• A mechanical typewriter
used for writing characters
was also invented around
1800.
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Electronic Age
• Electronic refers to an object that has electronic
components, such as sensors, microchips, which
functions once it is connected to an electronic outlet.
The Industrial Age and Electronic Age are quite similar –
they thrived in the manufacturing industries, the only
different because of the equipment used.
Electronic Age
• By early 1954, Transistor
Radio was introduced by
Texas Instruments (TI) had
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Electronic Age
• The television began its
popularity in the 1940s. It
was a novel item that
everyone wanted to have.
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Information (Digital) Age
• Digital Age or Informational Age is a period in human
history characterized by the shift from traditional
industry that the Industrial Revolution brought through
industrialization, to an economy based on information
computerization.
Information (Digital) Age
• The internet paved the way
advanced the used of
microelectronics with the invention
of personal computers, wearable
technology. Moreover, voice, image,
sounds, and data are digitalized.
• This is the period of computers,
laptops, smartphones and social
media.
Relationship between Traditional Media and New Media
• In the present time, new media is undeniably very
useful, but this does not mean that traditional media
has already become obsolete. Traditional media is still
valuable and influential because it has a wider reach
and market.
The Traditional Media and New Media
Four Main Categories of New Media (According to McQuail)
1. Interpersonal communication
media. Examples would be the
telephone, and e-mail where
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perishable, and the relationship
established and reinforced may
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Four Main Categories of New Media (According to McQuail)
2. Interactive play media.
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compose this category.
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Four Main Categories of New Media (According to McQuail)
3. Information search media. The
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despite geographical location.
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Four Main Categories of New Media (According to McQuail)
4. Collective participatory media.
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relationships. (McQuail, 2010)
Roles of Media in a Democratic Society
• During the Colonial Period, people had been restricted
to express their ideas and fight for their rights.
Democratic comes from the Greek words “demo”
(people) and “kratos” (rule) which means rule of the
people. In democratic society, the welfare of the public
is important and their rights are protected by the
government.
Roles of Media in a Democratic Society
• The Philippines’ 1986 and 2001 People Power
Revolutions perfectly show the importance of the role of
media in today’s society. Prior to People Power 1, local
newspapers such as The Manila Times, Daily Mirror and
The Manila Chronicles have reported about the
pervasive protests of people against the government
because of its inability to respond to issues regarding
labor, poverty and education.
Roles of Media in a Democratic Society
• In September 21, 1972, President Ferdinand E. Marcos
declared Martial Law in hope of restoring the peace and
order in the country. Instead, this dictatorial
government had taken over the mass media. Some
editors and journalists were arrested and detained to
control the dissemination of negative news against the
government, particularly the president.
Roles of Media in a Democratic Society
• During the People Power II on 2001, the tenure of
President Joseph Estrada. Media reported about his
involvement in illegal gambling and adultery.
Impeachment trial where the President Estrada was
accused of plunder and betrayal of public trust.
Roles of Media in a Democratic Society
• This proves that in democratic society, the media’s role
is very crucial as it becomes a reliable source of
information. People in democratic society also use
different media platforms as a means to express their
opinion on social issues. With the massive each of
media, it can greatly influence people’s views and
actions.
GROUP ACTIVITY
TIMELINE CREATION: Divide the class into two (2)
groups and assign each group a specific year or period in
the PHILIPPINE INTERNET TIMELINE and THE EVOLUTION
OF MEDIA IN THE PHILIPPINES. Each group can create a
timeline of the significant events that occurred during
their assigned period. Afterward, the timelines can be
presented to the entire class for discussion.
GROUP ACTIVITY – RUBRIC
Criteria Percentage
Accuracy of timeline 40%
Creativity and presentation 30%
Participation and collaboration 20%
Overall impact 10%
TOTAL 100%
Philippine Internet Timeline
• On March 29, 1994, the free and open Web first opened
its doors to Filipinos. To celebrate Philippine Internet's
20th year, we've put together a timeline leading up to
the day that would forever change how we
communicate, consume media, do commerce, and
access information—essentially, how we live our lives.
Philippine Internet Timeline
• August 1986: The first
Philippine-based, public-
access BBS [bulletin board
system], First-Fil RBBS went
online with an annual
subscription fee of P1,000.
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Philippine Internet Timeline
• 1987: The Philippine FidoNet Exchange, a local network for
communication between several BBSes in Metro Manila, was
formed.
• 1990: A committee helmed by Arnie del Rosario of the Ateneo
Computer Technology Center was tasked with exploring the
possibility of creating an academic network comprised of
universities and government institutions by the National
Computer Center under Dr. William Torres. Recommendations
were made but not implemented.
Philippine Internet Timeline
• 1991-1993: Emergence of email gateways and services in
the Philippines, including some from multinational
companies like Intel, Motorola, and Texas Instruments,
which used a direct Internet connection, X.25, or UCCP
protocol. Local firms ETPI, Philcom, and PLDT also
operated commercial X.25 networks.
Philippine Internet Timeline
• June 1993: With the support of the Department of Science
and Technology and the Industrial Research Foundation, the
Philnet project (now PHNET) was born. The Philnet technical
committee, composed of computer buffs working at the DOST
and representatives from the Ateneo de Manila University
(Richie Lozada and Arnie del Rosario), De La Salle University
(Kelsey Hartigan-Go), University of the Philippines Diliman
(Rodel Atanacio and Rommel Feria), and University of the
Philippines Los Baños, would eventually play a significant role
in connecting the Philippines to the World Wide Web.
Philippine Internet Timeline
• July 1993: Phase one of the Philnet project shifted into
full gear after receiving funding from the DOST. It proved
to be successful, as students from partner universities
were able to send emails to the Internet by routing them
through Philnet's gateway at the Ateneo, which was
connected to another gateway at the Victoria University
of Technology in Australia.
Philippine Internet Timeline
• November 1993: An additional P12.5-million grant for
the first year's running cost was awarded by the DOST to
buy equipment and lease communication lines needed
to kickstart the second phase of Philnet, now led by Dr.
Rudy Villarica.
Philippine Internet Timeline
• March 29, 1994, 1:15 a.m.: Benjie Tan, who was working
for ComNet, a company that supplied Cisco routers to the
Philnet project, established the Philippine's first
connection to the Internet at a PLDT network center in
Makati City. Shortly thereafter, he posted a short
message to the Usenet newsgroup soc.culture.filipino to
alert Filipinos overseas that a link had been made.
The Evolution of Media in the Philippines
• 1500 – Pre-colonial: Baybayin or Alibata (referred to in
Unicode as the Tagalog content) is a pre-Hispanic
Philippine composition framework that started from the
Javanese content Old Kawi. It kept on being used amid
the Spanish colonization of the Philippines up until the
late nineteenth Century. The term baybayin actually
implies spelling.
The Evolution of Media in the Philippines
• 1800- Print Industry and Filipino Freedom: Philippines
was acquainted with books, magazines, and daily papers
like "La Solidaridad" by the Spaniards who colonized the
Philippines for around 333 years.
The Evolution of Media in the Philippines
• 1890 – Broadcast Industry: The first telephone system of
the country began its operations, and the whole
archipelago enjoyed this system of information and
communication exchange.
The Evolution of Media in the Philippines
• 1897 – European Film Import: The cinematography film
camera and projector developed by the Lumpier siblings
got through the Spanish fighter named Carlo Naquera.
Naquera demonstrated a few Spanish-dialect movies to
choose gatherings of people in 1987.
The Evolution of Media in the Philippines
• 1922 – During this time, the Filipinos readily accepted
radio news and entertainment programs, and local
businessmen, who recognized its profitability, established
their own radio stations to advertise their products and
services. A couple of 50-watt radio stations were
established in Pasay and in Manila by Henry Hermann.
The Evolution of Media in the Philippines
• 1980 – Electronic Age: Broadcast or storage media that
exploits electronic innovation. They may incorporate TV,
radio, Web, fax, Disc ROMs, DVD, and some other
medium that requires power or computerized encoding
of data. The term 'electronic media' is regularly utilized
as a part of appearing differently in relation to print
media.
The Evolution of Media in the Philippines
• 1994 – Local Online Media: Benjie Tan, who was working
for ComNet, an organization that provided Cisco switches
to the Philnet venture, set up Philippine's first association
with the Web at a PLDT arrange focus in Makati City.
• 2011 - Philippines was names as the "Social Media
Capital of the World"
