History of Media Lit, part 2: Crash Course Media Literacy #3
Jay continues our journey through the history of media literacy with the arrival of movies, television, and the other screens that now permeate our lives – along with some of the different...
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During our last lesson we went way, way back to Ancient Greece where people were still a bit wary of the written word. We looked at how the printing press revolutionized literacy and later, how the newspaper became the first mass media. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. At the turn of the 20th century, around the peak of the penny press wars, another medium was about to go boom. The first motion pictures were shown in the 1890’s, and popular culture as we know it took its first steps off the printed page. Just three decades later, it would take another step forward, and then another. Radio broadcasts soon brought the news, music and more right into people’s homes. By the 1950’s television sets joined in. Just 40 years after that personal comput...
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During our last lesson we went way, way back to Ancient Greece where people were still a bit wary of the written word. We looked at how the printing press revolutionized literacy and later, how the newspaper became the first mass media. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. At the turn of the 20th century, around the peak of the penny press wars, another medium was about to go boom. The first motion pictures were shown in the 1890’s, and popular culture as we know it took its first steps off the printed page. Just three decades later, it would take another step forward, and then another. Radio broadcasts soon brought the news, music and more right into people’s homes. By the 1950’s television sets joined in. Just 40 years after that personal comput...
