Media can easily be found just around the corner in this age. It comes from the very news feeds broadcasted on air, on television. In fact today, television is still perhaps the major source of technology in terms of where media is channeled. Programs like CNN broadcast media, all the local stations in New York such as Fox, CBS, WABC all present news and covers the stories in society. However the question of how media starts is an interesting one.
Before our current day technology, perhaps to the beginnings of civilization, perhaps back to the age of the Greek and Roman civilizations, people began taking an interest in the occurrences and the events of life in their society. People wanted to do more than just carry on with their daily activities. They wanted to see what was happening. Sports was definitely a major part of daily life and events that occurred especially in the Roman and Greek civilization. Sports was a big part of life and people attended these events and if they did not have the ability to they certainly participated in them. Eventually people began to follow sports, even report them.
Not just sports but perhaps the statuses of the kings, the royal family, anything interesting that was eye-catching or interesting became part of the social media. The invention of the printing press later on enabled a new age of spreading news after an age where religion and the bible was pretty much the word of society.
As convergence comes into play, older methods of news sources such as the newspapers or film can be viewed on the internet through this new engine of seeing and experiencing media. The internet can be considered a relatively new platform where the old platforms are still being promoted. Technology was a major fundamental basis of exploring and experiencing media however the beginnings of media can be traced back to ancient times.
