Media and Communication

Introduction

"Media" is in many ways, an old term. A "medium" is, in the strict sense, an agent of transmission. The ancients believed that the universe was formed by means of ether. For better understanding, air, or water, is half. However, you can easily see that despite their status seemingly objective nature of a medium and determines the type and quality of information that can pass through it (Johnson & Taylor, pp 39 - 46).

Discussion

The modern use appropriated the term to mean media. Although at present consider the book or the press media. The telegraph was the true first modern media, which was quickly followed by the radio, television, telephone, cable and satellite transmission, and of course Internet. All these developments occurred in the last 150 years, mostly during the last century with the Internet in the last decade (Mully, pp 210 - 225).

Throughout the progress of technology, each new generation of media brought its load of utopias of public spaces creating participatory interaction between informed citizens use their right to speak. All new media is both the logical point of dispute between societal responsibility of the State, market and civil society (James, pp 88 - 96). Historically, the struggle for press freedom and freedom of expression she meant at the time, have encouraged and participated in major battles against censorship democratic, human rights, slavery, etc.. These struggles have contributed greatly to the development and the foundation of our democracy and the principles and laws that prevail today in terms of rights to information and communication. It also managed to shape an intersection of media spaces which coexist in various forms of media and media institutions (Johnson & Taylor, pp 39 - 46).

Today we consider the media as massive instances of communication, be it print, radio and television in its meanings public, private or community. These are mechanisms that allow the mass dissemination of information to facilitate social consensus building, construction and reproduction of public discourse and a certain level of interaction mainly of new independent media, alternative and community (James, pp 88 - 96). Until the Industrial Revolution, the development of mass media has been rather slow. Since 1800 we have followed new inventions that allowed, on the one hand, content to carry away more quickly, on the other, to reach the public more widely (Yorken, pp 213 - 221). The first was the invention of the ...