Radio, TV, Internet, =>

If one was to look at the development of three areas of media technology(radio, television and the Internet) you may notice a interesting trajectory that is still evolving to this day.

Radio:

In the early days of radio it was used as a communication medium across long distances to relay information between two or more places(HAM radio). Then RCA took from agriculture the word, “broadcasting” and used it to change our relationship with this device. Instead of interacting with the medium similarly to the way we do with a telephone it changed it very quickly into a transmitter of content like comedy hours, advertisements, and music.

Television

Television applied this “broadcasting” technique further with visual imagery along with sound and eventually connected and learned from the film industry to create better content.

Internet

At the point we are right now, the Internet is a converged multi-level platform of entertainment and information that has all of the ability to communicate between people easily while still allowing for content to be pushed through broadcasting.

So looking at these three developments of technology, each developed important components to media production, journalism, and communication. Because the Internet can be thought of as a open playing field, this has allowed for many new ways to express, exchange, develop and think.

Each is important in its own regard but in terms of media, the Internet is a culmination of the earlier two and we have yet to see its potential.

In future posts, I plan on dissecting these areas further and discuss each individually.