6. •Pre-Industrial Age (Before
1700s) - People discovered fire,
developed paper from plants, and
forged weapons and tools with
stone, bronze, copper and iron.
7. Examples:
• Cave paintings (35,000 BC)
• Clay tablets in Mesopotamia (2400 BC)
• Papyrus in Egypt (2500 BC)
• Acta Diurna in Rome (130 BC)
• Dibao in China (2nd Century)
• Codex in the Mayan region (5th Century)
• Printing press using wood blocks (220 AD)
8. •Industrial Age (1700s-1920s)
-People used the power of steam,
developed machine tools, established
iron production, and the manufacturing
of various products (including books
through the printing press).
9. Examples
●Printing press for mass production (19th century)
• Newspaper- The London Gazette (1640)
• Typewriter (1800)
• Telephone (1876)
• Motion picture photography/projection (1890)
• Commercial motion pictures (1913)
• Motion picture with sound (1926)
• Telegraph
• Punch cards
10. • Electronic Age (1930s-1980s)
- The invention of the transistor ushered in
the electronic age. People harnessed the
power of transistors that led to the
transistor radio, electronic circuits, and the
early computers. In this age, long distance
communication became more efficient.
11. • Transistor Radio
• Television (1941)
• Large electronic computers-
i.e. EDSAC (1949) and UNIVAC 1
(1951)
• Mainframe computers - i.e. IBM
704 (1960)
12. • Information Age (1900s-2000s)
- The Internet paved the way for faster
communication and the creation of the social
network. People advanced the use of
microelectronics with the invention of personal
computers, mobile devices, and wearable technology.
Moreover, voice, image, sound and data are
digitalized. We are now living in the information age.
13. • Web browsers: Mosaic (1993), Internet Explorer (1995)
• Blogs: Blogspot (1999), LiveJournal (1999), WordPress (2003)
• • Social networks: Friendster (2002), Multiply (2003), Facebook (2004)
• • Microblogs: Twitter (2006), Tumblr (2007)
• • Video: YouTube (2005)
• • Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality
• • Video chat: Skype (2003), Google Hangouts (2013)
• • Search Engines: Google (1996), Yahoo (1995)
• • Portable computers- laptops (1980), netbooks (2008), tablets (1993)
• • Smart phones
• • Wearable technology
• • Cloud and Big Data
16. Try to look at the picture shown in each number
and identify as to what age was this device
invented. Write your answer in a separate piece
of paper.
28. After going through this module, you are
expected to:
1. identify the roles of media performs in our
society; and
2. explain how the different technological
transitions have shaped the values and norms
of people and society.
29. • The media’s role in this society is
fundamentally a function of how this
society chooses to use the media.
Furthermore, the media’s relationship
with this society is both reflexive—the
mass media simultaneously affects and
is affected by mass society—and varied.
• From: The Role of Media in Society | Globalization101. Retrieved July 20, 2020, from http://www.globalization101.org/the-role-of-
media-in-society/
30. Guide Questions:
1. What does the first sentence say about media? Do
you agree with what the writer states? Why or why not?
2. What relationship is expressed in the second
sentence? Why do you think it is reflexive?
3. In your own opinion, what are the roles of media in
our society?
42. How many functions or roles of
media can you see? List them down
and give an explanation as to why
you think this role or function is
found in the picture.
47. Directions:
In a short bond paper, draw or paste a picture
of yourself and write on top the question: In
what way does media affect my life? In any part
of the body or area in the picture label it into 3
parts, personal, academic, and social. Give at
least 2 for each category.
50. 1.
A professor teaches the effects of global
warming and gathered relevant information
on this topic from TV, the Internet, books,
and other reference materials.
51. 2.
A students cites the source he found online
in completing his research work. He made
sure to write the name and year this was
published.
52. 3.
Luis was able to make a video presentation
out of the research article he read. Then, he
uploaded it on his Youtube channel.
53. 4.
Edna was feeling feverish after being
outside for days of training. She needed to
find remedy before her competition next
week. Due to quarantine status of her
location.
54. 5.
Knowing that it’s already a week before the
final examinations, Rey reviewed his notes
and browsed from reliable websites to
further enhance the learnings he gained in
their online class.
56. • Try to ponder and identify the person whom you think is the greatest man ever lived.
Answer the following questions:
1. Who is this person?
2. What do you know about him/her?
3. Where did you meet?
4. When did you meet?
5. Why did you meet him/her?
6. How did you meet?
The
greatest
man I’ve
ever met.
