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News paper
A newspaper is a publication containing news and information and advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called newsprint. It is most often published daily or weekly. The first printed newspaper was published in 1605, and the form has thrived even in the face of competition from technologies such as radio and television. Recent developments on the Internet are posing major threats to its business model, however. -
Radio
Radio brodcasting was the first wide spread program based form of communication. -
Television
television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with or without accompanying sound. In 1927, Philo Farnsworth made the world's first working television system with electronic scanning of both the pickup and display devices, which he first demonstrated to the press on 1 September 1928. -
mobile devices
The first hand-held mobile phone was demonstrated by Dr Martin Cooper of Motorola in 1973, using a handset weighing around 2.2 pounds (1 kg). In 1983, the DynaTAC 8000 was the first to be available to the public. From 1990 to 2011, worldwide mobile phone subscriptions grew from 12.4 million to over 5.6 billion, penetrating about 70% of the global population and reaching people all over the economic scale . Cellphones now offer many more features such as text messaging ,photography , gaming etc. -
the Internet " the web" "the net "
The Internet is a more interactive medium of mass media, and can be briefly described as "a network of networks". The internet became comercially available in the 1990s and as of 2011 a third of the world population use the service of the internet every day ! -
social media
social media includes web- and mobile-based technologies which are used to turn communication into interactive dialogue among organizations, communities, and individuals. In 2012 social media became one of the most powerful sources for news updates through platforms like Twitter and Facebook.
