Introduction to Media Communication

Whether you realize it or not, communication will continue to be a mainstay in our everyday lives.  Without it, life would not exist as we know it.

Introduction to Media Communication introduces readers to the forms of communication and media that the world has been using daily since birth. Readers learn about the fifteenth century printing press invention of Johannes Gutenberg and how it paved the way for communication as we know it today. Readers will find out why only certain classes of people in the world could read and write in the early centuries. Then, they will embark upon a journey that will take them through the history of newspapers and news delivery from the Pony Express and Pigeon Express to digitally print publications, to dime novels, magazines, advertising up through photography, motion pictures, sound recording, radio, television, telephones, the Internet, and social media.