Evolution of Communication

What is Communication?

• Communication is the activity of conveying information through the exchange of ideas, feelings, attitudes, thoughts, messages, or information between two or more participants.

Cave drawings were murals that people painted onto the walls of caves and canyons to tell the story of their culture.

Drums were one way to send signals to neighboring tribes and groups.

Smoke signals were another way to send messages to people who were not close enough to use words with

Textual Art Medium of Communication

• Textual Art Medium of communication involves:

• Cave Paintings• Scrolls• Manuscripts• Books• Letters• Newspapers and Magazines

Cave Paintings• Cave Paintings are

paintings on cave walls and ceilings, especially those of prehistoric

origin.• Oldest symbol.• Form of rock art.• The oldest known cave

painting is that of the Chauvet Cave, dating to around 30,000 BC.

Scrolls• A scroll is a roll of papyrus,

parchment, or paper containing writing.

• First form of editable record keeping texts.

• History dates back to ancient Egypt.

• Oldest complete Torah scroll was recently discovered on May 2013.

Manuscript• A manuscript is any document written by hand, as opposed to being printed or reproduced in some other way.• Before the arrival of painting, all documets and books were manuscripts.•Manuscripts may be in book form, scrolls or in codex format.

Alphabet

• First pure alphabets emerged around 2000 BC in Ancient Egypt.

• Alphabetic principles had already been incorporated into Egyptian hieroglyphs.

Introduction of printing press

• A printing press is a device for evenly printing ink onto a print medium (substrate) such as paper or cloth. The device applies pressure to a print medium that rests on an inked surface made of movable type, thereby transferring the ink.

First printing press was invented in China by the Han Chinese printer Bi Sheng between the years 1041 and 1048

Cont……

• Wooden printing presses invented in China

• Symbols were carved on wooden block

• Newspaper appeared in Europe

Various inventions after printing press

• Henry Mill patent the first type writer. (1714)

• Charles Wheatstone invented the telegraph. (1821)

Verbal Art Medium of Communication

• Charles Wheatstone invented the first microphone. (1821)

• Alexander Graham Bell invented the first telephone. (1876)

Visual Art Medium of Communication

• Television is a telecommunication medium that is used for transmitting and receiving moving images and sound. Television can transmit images that are monochrome, in color, or in three dimensions.

Invention of Television

• First television was invented by Jhon Logie Baird in 1925.

INTERNET• The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer

networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite(TCP/IP) to link several billion devices worldwide.

• It is an international network of networks that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government packet switched networks, linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless, and optical networking technologies.

• The Internet carries an extensive range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents and applications of the World Wide Web (WWW), the infrastructure to support email, and peer-to-peer networks for file sharing and telephony.

Upgradation

• There was an upgradation in the mediums of communication after the introduction of internet:

• Textual Medium of Communication: Emails instead of letters.

• Verbal Medium of Communication: Video Chats instead of telephones.

Social Networking Service• Social Networking Service is a platform to build

social networks or social relations among people who shares interests, activities, background or real-life connections.

• Social Networks are web-based services that allow individuals to create a public profile, to create a list of users with whom to share connections, and view and cross the connections within the system.

Conclusion

-SUBMITTED BYGROUP NO. 1