Communication: The Process, Barriers, and Improving Effectiveness
Communication: The Process, Barriers, and Improving Effectiveness
Communication: The Process, Barriers, and Improving Effectiveness
Literacy didn’t spread far beyond the Television Begins a New Era
most privileged in society – (Manuscript
Era) of Mass Consumption
Hugo Gernsback, the editor of
Radio News, watches television in his
Print Era (1450-1850) New York Apartment, in August 1928.
Johannes Gutenberg perfected hi
printing press, which could print 3,600
pages in one day, facilitating access to Sputnik 1 (Russia 1957)
media; book prices dropped by two-thirds Since the launch of the first
between 1450 – 1500. communications satellite in 1962,
satellites have been an integral part of
global communications.
Audiovisual Era
(Today, more than 2,500 satellites orbit
This marked by the invention of the earth to track weather, monitor
radio telegraph, telephone (Graham Bell), military movements, give users accurate
and television. directions through the global positioning
systems (GPS), and more)
Cell Phones Facilitate Instant
and Mobile Communication
(1973)
Martin Cooper, inventor of the
handheld cellular mobile phones, holds a
1973 motorola DynaTAC prototype in
Taipei on June 5, 2007.