Introduction to Technology and Communication
This refers to the tools and systems people use to send, receive and store messages.
Communication technology
1. Question: This early form of communication involved sending messages through drawings on cave walls.
Answer: What are cave paintings?
1. Question: This invention made books widely available and increased literacy.
Answer: What is the printing press?
1. Question: This device allowed people to hear broadcasts from long distances.
Answer: What is the radio?
1. Question: This global network allows people to communicate instantly across the world.
Answer: What is the Internet?
2. Question: This concept explains how communication and culture influence each other.
Answer: What is the relationship between technology, culture and communication?
2. Question: This invention allowed messages to be sent over long distances using coded signals.
Answer: What is the telegraph?
2. Question: This was a major effect of the printing press on society.
Answer: What is the spread of knowledge and education?
2. Question: This technology brought sound and moving images into homes.
Answer: What is television?
2. Question: These platforms allow users to share messages, photos and videos instantly.
Answer: What are social networking sites?
3. Question: This happens to culture when new communication technologies are introduced.
Answer: What is change or adaptation of cultural practices?
3. Question: Before modern devices, people used this method involving physical delivery of written messages.
Answer: What is letter writing or postal communication?
3. Question: Before this invention, books were mainly copied by hand.
Answer: What is the printing press?
3. Question: This change happened as people spent more time indoors consuming media.
Answer: What is reduced face-to-face social interaction?
3. Question: This term describes how content spreads rapidly online.
Answer: What is going viral?