NSU Intro to Media Studies

1. Chemistry Technology

6. 1826 – Joseph Niepce
First successful photographic
experiment.

8. 1829 – Louis Daguerre
Created the daguerrotype

19. 1860’s – Mathew Brady
Documented the Civil War

28. 1888 – George Eastman
Created the Kodak Camera

38. William Dickson
Developed first Movie Camera

39. Persistence of Vision
Fast changing still images create
the illusion of movement.

40. Lumiere Brothers
Opened first motion picture hall

41. Electrical Technology

42. Thomas Edison
First recording machine...
The Phonograph

45. Samuel Morse
1844 - The Telegraph machine

47. Granville Woods
1887 – wireless telegraphy

48. Guglielmo Marconi
1895 – transimitted the first
Wireless message.

49. Philo Farnsworth
1922 – invented the idea of
Television. (14 years old)

51. His device was called
an image dissector

52. Current Technology

53. Orbiting Satellites
Arthur C. Clarke

54. Telstar Satellite – 1960

57. Wired Tech
Land line Telephones
Cable Television

58. Digital Integration

59. Semiconductors
Tiny chips functioning as very rapid
on/off switches.

60. Binary Code
1 = on 0 = off

61. The Internet
ARPAnet – 1969
Advanced Research Projects Agency Network

62. The Internet
Lynx Internet Browser

63. The Internet
Tim Berners-Lee – created HTML

64. HTML
HTTP
FTP
URL
Hyper Text Markup Language
Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
File Transfer Protocol
Uniform Resource Locator

65. Cloud Computing
Where is the cloud?

66. Technology & Mass Communication
Concentric Circle Model

68. Message Controls
Gatekeepers – media people who
make judgements on what is sent.
Regulators – non-media people who
influence messages. (censorship)

69. Filters… what are they?
A receiver factor that
impedes communication.
• Informational filter
• Physical filter
• Psychological filter

70. So how our message gets to the
audience can make a big difference.
And what a difference your perspective makes.

74. So lets think… the world is changing.
What must traditional media companies do to
survive as we know them?