Media Technology - Luke Doherty

By ldoherty
  • The Printing Press
    Jan 1, 1439

    The Printing Press

    Allowed for mass printing of Documents. Most of the people back then could not read. It was also used for printing bibles.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1439 to

    Media and Current Affairs

  • Publication of the first Journal

    Publication of the first Journal

    Still to this day most people still can't read. Journals were published for scientists, inventors ad educated people, further enhancing science.
  • First magazine published in London

    First magazine published in London

    The magazine was published monthly, and shows that printing technology has improved. General interests shows wider audience so that more literacy. Still most people can't read.
  • First Major Newspaper in the UK

    First Major Newspaper in the UK

    Technology is now up to printing daily, much as it is today. This allows people to get the information the day after an event, therfore speeding events up.
  • Telephone Invented

    Telephone Invented

    Allows instant communication over long distances. Speeds up commerce.
  • Home Telephones Invented

    Home Telephones Invented

    This allows the public to talk directly from their own home. You could only buy one of these if you were rich.
  • BBC Radio begins broadcasting

    BBC Radio begins broadcasting

    This is the first mass media. Very popular. It transmits information directly into people homes. (Hitler used it to get support).
  • BBC begins broadcasting on TV in the UK

    BBC begins broadcasting on TV in the UK

    Even more of a powerful form of mass media. It is state owned. BBc created to inform, educate and entertain people. The rise of correspondants able to cover wars/big event. By 2010 24 million TV's are in the UK.
  • Invention of the Internet

    Invention of the Internet

    The internet was developed by the US military so that if one military base was destroyed the others could contact each other via a communication (NET).
  • Cable TV widely available in the UK

    Cable TV widely available in the UK

    This allows for more tv channles, rather than 3 terrestrial channles that existed at the time.
  • First Mobile Phone in the UK

    First Mobile Phone in the UK

    This cost around £2000, and you had a total of 30 minutes talk time. It was bought for business and weighed the same as 2 bags of sugar.
  • Satellite TV (Sky) in the UK to public

    Satellite TV (Sky) in the UK to public

    High tech, beamed from satellite, lot of channels, allows correspondants to report form events live as they happen.
  • First Text Message

    First Text Message

    Today the most popular form of instant communication. There is 1.2 billion text being sent per week in the UK
  • World Wide Web Invented Web 1.0

    World Wide Web Invented Web 1.0

    The WWW was used to buy/sell and find information.
  • 3G Mobile Invented

    3G Mobile Invented

    Pictures and video. This allows the members of the public to be their own reporters by instantly capturing, sharing images anywhere.
  • Web 2.0 Emerges

    Web 2.0 Emerges

    This becomes more about social networking for example bebo and myspace.
  • 4G Mobile

    4G Mobile

    Hih speed internet (access everyone is plugged into the system).
  • Web 3.0 begins to emerge

    Web 3.0 begins to emerge

    Intergrated internet which finds, organises and arranges things on your behalf via clouds.