Imran Farooq is Freelancer journalist and is presently pursuing Masters in Convergent Journalism from Central University of Kashmir CUK.

1. History and Development of Media-MACJ-102
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What is New Media?
Any form of media with the following characteristics:
Interaction is defined by Many.
Provide on-demand access to Content.
Anywhere (not bound by geography) .
On any digital device.
With interactive user-feedback.

3. Forms of New Media?
The Internet.
Mobile Phones.

4. The Internet
Central hub for a number of digital media.
No other form of mass media has allowed such
widespread participation before.
Allows users to “become the media”, creating
their own web site.

5. Advantages of INTERNET
Ability to send and receive messages through electronic mail
Instantly and without the need of postage stamp.
With the Internet came the convenience of online shopping.
Online Banking.
The Internet of Things (IoT): The main advantage of the Internet
Is its ability to connect billions of computers and devices to each other. Not only
does the Internet create convenience in sharing and receiving information
between users , another advantage of the modern internet is its ability for
automation. The Internet of Things where devices and sensors communicate with
each other to automatically perform a designated task or function.eg. Smart
Refrigerators and Door Locks.

6. Social Media
Social networking
(Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+).
Microblogging (Twitter, Tumblr).
Photo sharing (Instagram, Snap-
chat, Pinterest).
Video sharing
(YouTube, Facebook Live,
Periscope, Vimeo)

7. History of
Launched on February 4, 2004.
Founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommate and
fellow Harvard University student Eduardo Saverin.
The website's membership was initially limited by the founders to
Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston
area, the Ivy League, and gradually most universities in the United
States and Canada, corporations, and by September 2006, to everyone
with a valid email address along with an age requirement of being 13
and older.

8. February, 2004 saw The facebook launch, the platform was
familiar.
 It had a profile where you could upload a photo, share your
interests, and connect with other people. It also offered a network
visualization of your connections.
Initially this was only opened to people with a Harvard email
address and within the first month 50% of the college’s student’s
had signed up.

10. History of
Twitter is an American online news and social networking service on which
users post and interact with messages known as "tweets".
 Tweets were originally restricted to 140 characters, but on November 7, 2017,
this limit was doubled for all languages except Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
 Registered users can post tweets, but those who are unregistered can only
read them.
 Users access Twitter through its website interface, through Short Message
Service (SMS) or mobile-device application software.
Twitter, Inc. is based in San Francisco, California, and has more than 25 offices
around the world

11. Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone,
and Evan Williams and launched in July of that year. The service rapidly gained
worldwide popularity. In 2012, more than 100 million users posted 340 million
tweets a day, and the service handled an average of 1.6 billion search
queries per day. In 2013, it was one of the ten most-visited websites and has
been described as "the SMS of the Internet". As of 2016, Twitter had more
than 319 million monthly active users. Since 2015, and continuing into 2016 and
future years, Twitter has also been the home of debates, and news covering
Politics of the United States, especially during the 2016 U.S. presidential election
and 2018 United States Midterms, with Twitter proved to be the largest source
of breaking news on the day of the 2016 election, with 40 million election-
related tweets sent by 10:00 p.m. that day.

12. Source-BBC

13. Mobile Phones
A mobile phone is a wireless handheld device that allows users
to make and receive calls and to send text messages, among other
features.
The earliest generation of mobile phones could only make and
receive calls.
 Today’s mobile phones, however, are packed with many
additional features, such as web browsers, games, cameras, video
players and even navigational systems.
A mobile phone may also be known as a cellular phone or simply
a cell phone

14. 5 Advantages of Mobile Phones
Communication.
News.
Photography.
Online Services.
Education.

15. Mobile phones were invented as early as the 1940s.
The very first mobile phones were not really mobile phones at
all. They were two-way radios that allowed people like taxi drivers
and the emergency services to communicate.
Motorola, on 3 April 1973 were first company to mass produce
the first handheld mobile phone.
These early mobile phones are often referred to as 0G mobile
phones, or Zero Generation mobile phones. Most phones today
rely on 3G or 4G mobile technology.

16. 1926: The first successful mobile telephony service was offered to first class passengers
on the Deutsche Reichsbahn on the route between Berlin and Hamburg.

17. 1946: The first calls were made on a car radiotelephone in
Chicago. Due to the small number of radio frequencies available,
the service quickly reached capacity.
1956: The first automated mobile phone system for private
vehicles launched in Sweden. The device to install in the car used
vacuum tube technology with rotary dial and weighed 40Kg.
1969: The Nordic Mobile Telephone (NMT) Group was
established. It included engineers representing Sweden,
Denmark, Norway and Finland. Its purpose was to develop a
mobile phone system that, unlike the systems being introduced
in the US, focused on accessibility.

19. 1987: The Technical specifications for the GSM standard are
approved. Based on digital technology, it focused on
interoperability across national boundaries and consequent
different frequency bands, call quality and low costs.
1992: The world’s first ever SMS message was sent in the
UK. Neil Papworth, aged 22 at the time was a developer for a
telecom contractor tasked with developing a messaging
service for Vodafone. The text message read “Merry
Christmas” and was sent to Richard Jarvis, a director at
Vodafone, who was enjoying his office Christmas party.

20. 2000: The all-conquering Nokia 3310 crash landed on shop shelves. Naturally
it was unscathed and went on to sell 126 million units. Over in Japan, the first
commercially available camera phone The Sharp J-SH04, launched in November
2000 in Japan. The only snag? you could only use it in Japan. Europe wouldn’t
get its first camera phone until the arrival of the Nokia 6750 in 2002.
2003: The 3G standard started to be adopted worldwide, kicking off the age
of mobile internet and paving the way for the rise of smartphones. Honk Kong-
based Hutchinson Wampoa owned Three brand offered the first 3G network
connection in the UK among other countries. Staying very much on-brand,
Three ranged a trio of 3G handsets, namely: the Motorola A830, the NEC e606
and NEC e808.

21. 2009: O2 publicly announced that it had successfully
demonstrated a 4G connection using six LTE masts in Slough,
UK. The technology, which was supplied by Huawei, achieved a
peak downlink rate of 150Mbps.
WhatsApp also launched that year, letting customers send and
receive calls and messages via the internet. The messaging
system now has 1.2 billion users sending more than 10 billion
messages a day. Which makes it 50% more popular than
traditional texting

22. History of New Media
PPT By-Imran Farooq
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Subject Code- MACJ 102
Submitted to- Dr. John K Babu.

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