Media Awareness Of World Events

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How did media explore the effects of awareness to the world events? Media had introduced itself to the real world and was established in the mid 1800s and happened to take place in various types of world events. Not much has happened to the real world before media was actually introduced. People had no communication nor technology. This was a rough time for whoever participated in world events. This has strongly suffered many people throughout this time. However, some thought they can solve this issue by making things different. Others haven't realized what they've overcome. Media is one of the biggest propaganda that yet to seen in that time. Since their was no communication in the mid 1800s, no one knew their destination of where to go or …show more content…
Around the mid 1800s, that's that's when these source of communication was invented. Morse code was used for military service and strictly advised the way of translating abbreviations for words and started at around 1700s and worked its way up to the late 1800s. The military use morse code for indicating the dashes and dots symbol. This has changed the military society, but had very little communication. Morse code became a huge Influence of a way to communicate because it's one of the very first form of connection between bond to bond. Then leads to Pony Express which was a very big source of media and has happened to close down is a short period of time. Pony Express was used for delivering mail, newspapers, and messages. This was founded in the mid 1800s, in Missouri. Alexander Major was the one who founded this idea to be astonishing, sadly it had closed down in terms of the lack of operations. This changed people's lives from happening because this source of communication was very helpful to sending mail out of states or possibly though countries. Telegraph has happened before Pony Express started, in the 1830s. Telegraph was also a big source of media and it happened to be very good for chatting with people out of countries. This was used for supporting the goods and delivering the composed materials. This machine was very useful …show more content…
Radio was one of the major medias and at the start of the 1900s. The founder was Guglielmo Marconi and decided to make a news network which was the Radio. This was very popular and had many facts of its own. It's used for news and channels of what are they seeing in the real world. Radio had not many channels as we have today, it was the start of something unbelievable of what's about to be become. As they progress into new medias, TV had become the other major media in the 1920s. Who led by Philo Farnsworth and since he had no electricity at his time, he decided to make a TV, so he can change people's lives and find out what's going on in the real world. Nobody knew someone with no electricity thought of this idea. Radio was basically the upgrade from TV and played a huge role on news or data. TV has impacted on military service, so they can see about the welfare and the general thoughts to their opinion. As we use TV today, it strongly impacted our lives from watching whatever we want. Not only what's going on in the world, we can see various types of mood changing form horrific, comedy, romantic, and all sorts of subjects. As we see radios today, we think of advertisement, music, and general news. Both of these tools, impacted so much of our lives and expanded others as well. TV has more socialism towards news and information other than radios however, radios are

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