By Jack R. Eaton
February 29, 2016
There are all different types of media technologies that we
use in the world today. They are
important because it is how we receive information. Even though some of these are not as
prevalent as they once were, all of them are incredibly valuable sources of
information in the right circumstance, and it is important that we, the
information seeking public, understand that.
In recent years old media has given way to new media. The term old media refers to traditional
one-to-many forms of mediated communication such as print, radio, and
television, and the label new media is used to describe digital information and
technology systems, including networked computing and mobile telecommunication (Trenholm,
2011). There are basically four ways in
which everyone in the world is capable of receiving mass information. They are print, radio, television, and the
internet.
