In 2008, a man called Oscar Morales used Facebook to rally 12million people to protest against Colombian communist guerrilla Organiation Farc. At the same year, a Facebook group organized a huge water fight in downtown Leeds, England. In September 2008 more than a thousand people spent twenty minutes or so smashing each […]
The invention of radio broadcasting took a long time. In the year of 1864, British scientist James Clerk Maxwell conjured that ” an electromagnetic disturbance travels in free space with the velocity of light”. Then 24 years later, Heinrich Hertz confirmed his speculation by discovering electromagnetic waves (Sengupta & Sarkar, 2003). In 1895, Alexander S. […]
“As the first modern mass medium, radio made America into a land of listeners,” Tom Lewis pointed out (1992, p.26). With ears and imagination, people embraced a new world. Radio is of immediacy, providing infectious information by voice. It targets general public as the audience, not demanding high literacy level and restricted geographic scope. Meanwhile, […]
Before iPad came out, almost nobody thought it would be as successful as it became in the end. Even though iPhone back in 2010 was not as strong beasts as they are today, iPod Touch was a well established product for portable online communication and media technology. A lot of people did not see the […]
Just look around, printed matters are everywhere. If we say that the invention of text has led to the extension of human thoughts and furthermore the profound of it, then the invention of the printing press is undoubtedly enabling more human beings to engage in these thoughts. Printing was originated in China, recognized as the […]
Though the world is captivated by Siri and her charming ways… she’s not the first virtual assistant. Back when IBM introduced its first speech recognition machine in 1962 – few could imagine the incalculable functions that this technology would have. The IBM Shoebox was a computer that was able to perform mathematical functions and recognize […]
Steve Jobs announced iPhone at the Macworld convention at the beginning of the year 2007 gaining substantial eyeballs from all walks of life. Half a year later on June 29, 2007, the first iPhone was released. People waited outside Apple stores for days in lineups that ran for blocks wanting to own the newest revolutionary […]