Communication was traced back to the early days when people devices a means of communicating through pictographic. This process made it easy to communicate through pictures, drawing which they design on the cave walls and keep. It was known as written communication
Around 2000-3000 Bc, the drawing and matching developed to alphabets marking the beginning the recorded history (Bitterm 1999). In 3,500 Bc, the Sumerians device a pictographic writing known as uniform while Egyptians called their hydrographic
Compunction came from the Latin word: communis and communicara and means sharing meeting of minds etc, that means communication is a process which allows messages to flow both ways and results to sharing of the experience. According to “Frank E.K Danica in his article concept of communication.
“to communicate means to share das
information, opinion, feeling and experience
between people”.
Wilbur Schramm pointed out that when people communicate, they are trying to establish a “commonness” with one another .it takes place through a variety of channels called mass media.
Mass media are channels of communication through which people communicate or through which information s disseminated to reach the wide audience .it is classified into “print and electronic media. The print media are books, newspapers, magazine, periodical’s, journals, newsletter or hours organ whose basis is the printed word.
I 1450, Johan Gutenberg of Mainz Germany, invented metal immovable tyre. There was a break through in technology, giving way for art printing in W\European age when the Guttrnberg bible was printed followed by newspaper which fist appear n China in AD 500. In Europe ,it came in existence to satisfy the commercial classes who has no interest in books. It circulated among the employees as hand written newsletters.
The first daily newspaper which appeared in England was “Daily Courant” from their it yet to Niagara in Abeokuta through am Aglica revered, Henry Townsend in1850. The name of the newspaper was a “IWE IROHIN FUN AEWON ARA AGBA ATI YOURBA. This means newspaper for the Egbes and the Yourbas.
The electronic media rely on electric impulses to get their messages to the audience. They are radio, television, telex, cinema and a cable message. In 19th century the principle of “motion pictures was discovered. The 1824 discovery precludes that human eye retains an image for a fraction of a second longer than the picture actually appears. In 20th century, the motion picture, that is the ability to capture moving visual images with the camera through the use of films. Bittner 1989, discovered that electro-magnetic impulses can be sent through without the wire carrying voice transmission over long distance and is known as Radio. Television was traced through ICONOSCOPE, which come into existence in 1923. It used electronics to detect and transmit pictures and it’s Invention transformed television to an electronic medium which before depended on mechanical production of visual images.
Radio is a means of formalism education, culture and entertainment. Most African countries are conglomerates of units of divergent cultures, religion, injustice and socio-political enslavep to wield these multi-ethnic units together and create a sense of nationness the election is the best instrument because of its ability to for stall the illiteracy and language barrier. It was the initiation of though colonialists to link the colonial territories with Britain so that radio would serve as propaganda machinery. It was also a tool for disseminating their allies cultural norms, values and philosophies to the colonies.
In Nigeria, radio reception dares back to the early 19302.it started as wireless bells mentoring and relaying programme for the British broadcasting corporation (BBC) for the interest of her colonial servant in the colonies. by 1951, the Nigeria broadcasting service (NBS) was formally inaugurated as a rely station working closely with BBC. While the first television station was established in 1959 in Western region.
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