The Electronic Era

Development of the telegraph in the 1840s
(dot-dash electronic signals, four key contributions to communicate.)
                 -i.) separated communication from transportation, making media messages instantaneous
                 -ii.) unencumbered by stagecoaches, ships, or the pony express.
                 -iii.) in combination with mass-marketed newspapers, transformed “information into a commodity, a ‘thing’ that could be bought or sold irrespective of its uses or meaning.
                 -iv.) easier to coordinate commercial and military operations, after the installation of the transatlantic cable in the late 1860s.
                 -v.) led to future technological developments, such as wireless telegraphy,fax machine, cell phone, resulted in the telegraph’s demise
Boomed in the 1950s and 1960s with the arrival of television and its dramatic impact on daily life.
(followed by personal computers, cable TV, DVDs, DVRs, direct broadcast satellites, cell phones, smartphones, PDAs, and e-mail)

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Note on Chapter 1: Culture and Evolution of Mass Communication, created by shadow-kong on 02/09/2013.