The Technology Revolution in Communication: From Past to Present Introduction: Technology surrounds almost everything in society. It plays a dominant role, and we use a lot of technological devices in our daily lives like mobile phones, TVs, computers, etc. Technology is the most powerful driver of our past and future life, it has been transforming and shaping our life from difficulty to ease. Thanks to technology, we can now communicate with anyone from anywhere in the world, even from other…
believed modern technology from telegraph to television, makes discourse broken, disconnected, and sensationalized. Neil Postman wrote the book in 1980s, the golden age of television, he didn’t foresee the rising new communication technology—the Internet, will create a whole new discourse. Internet amplifying the weakness…
many youths have television in their rooms which could give children a greater opportunity to view programs without parental supervision. Researchers show that young children could copy aggressive and dangerous acts on TV in their play with peers. Before the age of 4, children are unable to know the difference between fact and fantasy and may view violence as normal. Media Violence does affect youth violence; if…
According to the history of cameras, the first camera ever developed was called camera obscura later developed into daguerreotypes, calotypes, dry plates, film, and digital cameras. An Arab person named Ibn al-Haytham was the first ever person who created the camera. He published his Book of Optics in 1021 AD. He produced the first pinhole camera after observing how light travelled through a window shutter. He realized that smaller holes would create sharper images. He is also credited with…
Everyone had that one show you watched or remember watching all the time, these shows catch young children’s attention with their highly stylistic visuals, loveable characters, or respectable morals that you could take into adulthood; sometimes all three. While most people watched shows like SpongeBob, or Ed, Edd, and Eddy, the show I most remember watching was more adult oriented, all possible jokes aside the show that affected my childhood the most was Seinfeld. Seinfeld was an American sitcom…
Continuing that tradition, most modern stand-up comedians use television or motion pictures, Social Media, Websites, Blogs to reach a level of success and recognition unattainable in the comedy-club circuit alone. Today stand-up comedy is also redefining nightlife by adding more fun in it and making it happening. It…
Ray Bradbury was an American fantasy, science fiction, horror and mystery fiction author, best known for his novel “Fahrenheit 451”. In the book Fahrenheit 451, books are considered so dangerous a force in society they are banned, and literacy is a crime. For, Ray Bradbury the premise was fictional, but the animating belief in the power of reading was entirely real. "Reading is the most important thing in the world," he once said. "To live as a civilized human being, you've got to have something…
aggressive marketing of the newest technology wasn’t a concern during the war. “In 1946, there were fewer than 17,000 television sets in the U.S. Three years later, consumers were buying sets at a rate of 250,000 per month. The buying frenzy continued throughout the 1950s and by 1960 three-quarters of all American families owned at least one TV.” (Sports in America in the 1950s) Television brought different sports to common households all over America, creating a new generation of diehard fans.…
People started using television in the 1940’s. Television makes people feel like they are viewing live events. Television took years of innovation. In the beginning the importance of was ignored as people didn’t really need television in their day to day lives. In 1872, Joseph May, was examining materials for use in for the first transatlantic cable placed a strand of selenium wire on a table near a window and noticed that sunlight caused the electrical conductivity of the wire to change .He…
Al Gore’s book on “The Assault on Reason” analysis on the aspect of how politics and the technological age of media such as T.V is controlled by fear and ignorance; that makes a deadly cocktail. The main points come from, how the charasistics of television is a powerful tool to be used, but the layout and distribution are delayed by idiocy and celebrity distractions. He argues that that most people do not use their full potential to discuss and debate as we did in the era of the founding fathers…