Television was first licensed for commercial broadcasting in 1941. On the contrary to the early predictions saying that Television would bring “infinite broadening of the democratic process”(Mickelson, 1960), Gentzkow pointed out that “the entry of television in a market actually coincided with sharp drops in consumption of newspapers and radio, More
On December 15, AOL Instant Messenger will be shutting down for the final time after 20 years of service. AOL Instant Messenger, AIM, was created in 1997 by AOL accidentally and became the leading instant messenger online chat system in North America. Available from only a desktop computer, it was one... More
When the public mobile phone was first invented in the 1940s (Farley, 2005) it did not have the advanced design and capabilities that it has now. Additionally, due to the restrictions that the early mobile phone faced imposed by the Federal Communications Commission (Farley, 2005), commercial use... More
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... More
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, More