Communication Process/Media History

1. Communication Process/Media History Comm I

2. Receiving and transmitting information contained in sounds, images, and sensations of everyday life

3. Communication Environment

4. The way we communicate acoustically and visually

5. Communication Behavior

6. Communicating with those around us (limited audience)

7. Interpersonal Communication

8. Communicating with an extensive audience via mass media (tv/newspaper/radio/internet)

9. Mass Communication

10. Shannon-Weaver Communications Model • Sender • Information • Medium • Receiver • Feedback

11. Noise

12. Anything that interferes with the communication between sender and receiver • Examples?

13. Symbol • High-correspondence symbol • Low-correspondence symbol • Referent • Ex’s of symbols/referents?

14. Used movable type; allowed books to become first mass medium

15. Printing press

16. Sound-producing machine invented by Edison; precedes record player

17. phonograph

18. A transparent film invented by Goodwin

19. celluloid

20. Decorated or illustrated text

21. Illuminated manuscript

22. An early paper similar to parchment, invented circa 2400 BC

23. papyrus

24. Introduced in 1983, followed cassette tapes as the preferred method for music recording

25. CD

26. Roman method of book binding, used cords to tie sheets of parchment between wooden boards

27. Codex

28. Invented in 1844, transmits messages and signals using electric pulses, allows communication across great distances; precedes telephone

29. telegraph

30. Allows instant access to information, news, music, and people

31. Internet

32. Introduced in 2002, a subscription service similar to cable TV; two major providers merged in 2008

33. Satellite radio

34. First typesetting machine invented by Mergenthaler in 1880

35. Linotype machine

36. Followed records as preferred medium for music recording, used from mid 1970’s to mid 1980’s, now obsolete

37. cassette

38. Introduced at the 1939 World’s Fair, has become most popular and accessible form of mass media; used for information, entertainment, and escape

39. television

40. Introduced in 1996, capable of storing 7x more information than a CD, followed VHS as the preferred method of film recording

41. DVD

42. 2400 BC-1453 • Oral communication • Papyrus • 1st known alphabet • Writing materials advance from clay tablets to wood-pulp paper • codex

43. 1453-1840 • Gutenberg’s printing press, movable type • Books become 1st mass medium • Free press as foundation for democracy • Colonial newspapers • 1st magazine

44. 1840-1900 • Telegraph • Phonograph • Linotype machine • Celluloid • Literacy rates boom • Books, newspapers & magazines become vital part of American society

45. 1900-1940 • Industrial revolution • WW I • Great Depression • Radio becomes a full-fledged mass medium (Golden Age of Radio) • Public relations spurs U.S. into WWII • Muckraking journalists focus on social issues and big business

46. 1940-1980 • FCC sets TV starndards • Television networks promote shared culture and social movements • Social issues take the forefront in broadcast television • Popularization of VCR • Expansion of cable • Defense research leads to communications satellite technology and beginnings of Internet

47. 1980-2014 • Cable TV explodes • The Internet becomes mass medium • Computers become common in most homes • Email • MTV and CNN introduced • Mass media are deregulated (media fragmentation occurs) • Telecommunications Act of 1996 discards most ownership limits- corporate media dominate • Social media – facebook, instagram, etc.