For it’s 10 year anniversary, I think it’s appropriate to take a look back at how the iPhone came into our lives one summer day and drastically changed not only the way we communicate with people, but how it has affected social behavior and the nature of communication technology as... More
Every invention of technology aims at providing people with convenience and efficiency, communicative technologies enable people to exchange information at any time and everywhere. Thanks to the emergence of Internet and smartphones, we are now able to do video chatting with family members from anywhere in the world, and talk... More
“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... More
As the teleprinter was first invented by engineers, inventors and users in 1830s would never imagine that this technology could be evolved to something that could easily allow users to instantly “exchange small elements of content such as short sentences, individual images, or video links(Kaplan & Haenlein, 2011)”, that is, More
The history of the television can be driven back to late 19th and early 20th. The invention of television is regarded as the combined work of many individual scientists all over the world. John Logie Baird invented the first mechanical television. Baird “managed to transmit a flickering image across a... More