STS
THE INFORMATION AGE
(GUTEBERG TO SOCIAL
MEDIA)
INFORMATION AGE
as known as the COMPUTER
AGE, or NEW MEDIA AGE is a
period in human history
characterized by the shift from
tradition industry that the
Industrial revolution brought
through industrialization, to an
economy based on
information computerization.
JOHANNES GUTENBERG
• KNOWN FOR: INVENTING THE
MOVEABLE TYPE PRINTING PRESS
• BORN: C 1394-1404 IN MAINZ,
GERMANY
• PARENTS: FRIELE GENSFEISCH ZUR
LADEN AND ELSE WIRICH
• DIED: FERBRUARY 3, 1468, IN
MAINZ, GERMANY
• EDUCATION: ENROLLED AT THE
UNIVERSITY OF ERFURT
JOHANNES GUTENBERG
JOHANNES GUTENBERG IS FAMOUS
FOR HAVING DESIGNED AND BUILT THE
FIRST PRINTING PRESS TO
INCORPORATE MOVABLE TYPE AND
MECHANIZED INKING AND FOR USING
HIS INVENTION TO PRODUCE THE
GUTENBERG BIBLE.
THE GUTENBERG REVOLUTION
• IT BEGUN WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF
PRINTING, SPECIFICALLY THE MOVABLE
PRINTING PRESS, BY GUTENBERG.
• MOST BOOKS THAT WAS PRINTED WERE
THAT OF RELIGIOUS TEXTS OF THE
MEDIEVAL PERIOD THAT WERE INITIALLY
WRITTEN IN LATIN.
THE PRE-GUTENBERG WORLD
PRINTING PRESS WAS NOT YET AVAILABLE:
• INFORMATION WAS ONLY RELAYED TO OTHER
THROUGH A WORLD-OF-MOUTH CHANNELS.
• BOOKS WERE WRITTEN AND PRODUCED BY HAND.
• THEY WERE MADE IN SURFACES OF CLAY, WAX,
PAPYRUS AND PARCHMENT.
THE POST-GUTENBERG WORLD
THIS ERA CAN BE DESCRIBED AS THE
EMERGENCE OF THE INTERNET AND THE
WORLD WIDE WEB. THIS PAVED THE WAY TO
THE POSSIBLE UPLOADING AND
DOWNLOADING OF ALL FORMS OF MEDIA
INSTRUMENTS SUCH AS VIDEO, AUDIO, AND
IMAGES.
• WHO IS THE FATHER OF COMPUTERS?
COMPUTERS (ANALYTICAL ENGINE)
• THIS TECHNOLOGY WAS DESIGNED FOR
MATHEMATICAL CALCULATIONS AND
SIMPLE DECISION-MAKING CAPABILITIES.
• INVENTED BY CHARLES BABBAGE, AN
ENGLISH MECHANICAL ENGINEER AND
CONSIDERED THE “FATHER OF
COMPUTERS”
WORLD WIDE WEB
• SIR TIM BERNERS-LEE, A BRITISH
COMPUTER SCIENTIST THAT STARTED IN
1990'S
SIMILARLY, ONLINE BUSINESSES CAN EARN
MONEY THROUGH ONLINE TRANSACTIONS.
Founder of facebook?
MARK
ZUCKERBERG
co-founded the social-
networking website
Facebook out of his college
dorm at Harvard University.
FACEBOOK
IS A SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE
THAT MAKES IT EASY FOR YOU
TO CONNECT AND SHARE
WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS
ONLINE
• Name one of the creator of twitter:
TWITTER
IT WAS CREATED BY JACK DORSEY,
NOAH GLASS, BIZ STONE, AND
EVAN WILLIAMS IN MARCH 2006
AND LAUNCHED IN JULY OF THAT
YEAR.
ITS PRIMARY PURPOSE IS TO
CONNECT PEOPLE AND ALLOW
PEOPLE TO SHARE THEIR
THOUGHTS WITH A BIG AUDIENCE.
MESSENGER
A MESSENGER APP IS ANY APP
THAT ENABLES A PRIVATE
MESSAGING FUNCTION BETWEEN
TWO OR MORE PEOPLE.
IT IS AN INSTANT MESSAGING
SERVICE OWNED BY FACEBOOK,
LAUNCHED IN AUGUST 2011,
REPLACING FACEBOOK CHAT.
YOUTUBE
YOUTUBE WAS FOUNDED BY STEVE
CHEN, CHAD HURLEY, AND JAWED
KARIM FEBRUARY 14, 2005
YOUTUBE IS A FREE VIDEO
SHARING WEBSITE THAT MAKES IT
EASY TO WATCH ONLINE VIDEOS.
GOOGLE
GOOGLE WAS FOUNDED ON
SEPTEMPER 4, 1998, LARRY PAGE
AND SERGEY BRIN.
GOOGLE IS AN INTERNET SEARCH
ENGINE.
INSTAGRAM
INSTAGRAM WAS FOUNDED BY
KEVIN SYSTROM. IT IS A FREE,
ONLINE PHOTO-SHARING
APPLICATION AND SOCIAL
NETWORK PLATFORM THAT WAS
ACQUIRED BY FACEBOOK IN 2012.