Technological Advancements: The Evolution Of Mass Communication

The author’s study of the Internet’s genesis makes systematic links between the technological development and its organizational, social, and cultural environment. There are many available histories on the Internet, in print and online. Most are well-documented information on technology and its history. Some mention the fundamental concepts of communication, information, and knowledge. Abbate's work, however, goes beyond ordinary facts and her findings are most revealing.

Since the first Transatlantic telegraph cable was laid out in 1858, the world as we know has continued to shrink (Mercer, 2006, p.17). Suddenly people could communicate around the world almost instantly, sharing information, ideas, or just greetings. This trend continued when Alexander Graham

To begin,the internet has helped us evolve communication. From having to give a messenger you message could take as long as 30 days,to now that we just simply turn on our phones,and click the send button and help us communicate all over the world in just seconds. Before the internet,if you wanted to keep up with the news,you had to walk down to the newsstand when it opened in the morning. Imagine living in a world where sending an urgent text to a friend or a loved one could take up to days or months. This is a perfect example of what

The internet has changed the world as we knew it. The world no longer communicates, does business, or perches commodities in the same a traditional way. E-mail, instant massager and chat rooms were the first innovations to be used by the public. As time went on more and more people depended on the internet to communicate with each other. It did not take long for the U.S. Postal service to see the decline in mailed letters. With the internet being so easy to access and email being so easy to use it quickly became the preferred way to communicate with family and friends over long distances. Companies soon followed suit to better serve their clients.

Never has a communications system played so many roles in our lives--or exerted such broad influence over our thoughts--as the Internet does today.

Why was the essay not printing? Because the printer was too busy reading it! With the Printing Press being invented, the history of communication gradually changed. Johannes Gutenberg invented this moveable type and it became a reminder of how our writings came to be more deliberate. Communication enlarged over time and because of the Printing Press, it made lives much easier when it came to writing and illustrating. This raises the question, “What Was the Most Important Consequence of the Printing?” In this context, important is defined as having a far reaching and long lasting impact on society. The most important consequences of the Printing Press were its ability to encourage exploration, spread of literature, and

During the Renaissance in Europe, many new inventions were created. Among these inventions where items like the printing press. The printing press allowed for fast reproduction of text. No longer did books and papers need to be transcribed by hand. Now they could be produced at a greater rate by the printing press.

Important alphabets would include the Greek alphabet, which was the first phonemic alphabet. These are alphabets that are, “…sets of letters, usually arranged in a fixed order, each of which represents one or more phonemes, both consonants and vowels, in the language they are used to write.” (Ager) From this came the two most widely used alphabets, the Latin/Roman and the Cyrillic alphabets, which have been adapted to write numerous languages. From the periods of these writing systems, letters would have begun to spring up as a form of communication between people who were not readily available to give information to immediately.

Johannes Gutenberg’s printing press changed how the world communicated. Before the printing press was invented, people around the world had to handwrite every single word into a book; this took a very long time and was also expensive. Also, literature

The printing press helped a lot through the renaissance time and even after that. Gutenberg helped spread the word of Martin Luther and his ideas and the knowledge of the world

Life before the printing press was much different than it was after. Before the printing press, most documents were hand-written by scribes. There were few books compared to what there is now and only the rich, upper-class families owned books. Only the upper-class families were well educated and most of the lower-class members didn't even know how to read. There was very little spread of information in Europe before the printing press because of how inefficient and costly books were at the time. The printing press was one of the best technological advances of the Renaissance.

Today, communication is taken for granted as almost everything is at the touch of our finger tips. We are no longer limited to how we can send messages like in people the 1800s. Today we have, more or less, perfected the technology and capability to communicate with others. Sending a message to one recipient or a mass of people is now simple, digital, and instantaneous. It is amazing to think about how we had to rely on

Knowledge, information and even culture was spread massively through the book which were all published and printed by the Printing press. The culture that was spread from one country to another, made the world interact together and learn about the other side of the world and different types of people. How did the Printing press help expand the Renaissance? Paintings, poems and art were all included in books. Paintings that were one of a kind were also recreated at a point where the books that were printed had a picture and image of one of a kind paintings, poems that were written by famous authors or even plays that were explained and had the script were all in the books which helped expand the Renaissance.

The printing press was a major invention that was made by a German goldsmith named Johann Gutenberg in 1450. One of the most famous manuscripts, the Gutenberg Bible, was the first manuscript produced by the press. Another invention that changed the world was the internet and computer. The internet was made in 1983 by Robert E. Kahn and Vincent Erff and the computer was made by German Konrad Zuse in 1936-1938. Similar to the extent of the influence of the printing press one hundred years earlier, the internet and the computer have had a large impact on the world. They provide more intellectual knowledge, which increases the economy and spreads social communication around the world. All of which changed how people saw these inventions in a more

New media has emerged from the print media. But its target audience is different from that of print media. Today, we have young readers getting attracted towards new media. This is because they feel that they really don’t need to waste their time reading when they