![](/olcweb/styles/shared/spacer.gif) | Chapter Outline (See related pages)
describe the major events and general trends in media history |
![](/olcweb/styles/shared/spacer.gif) | ![](/olcweb/styles/shared/spacer.gif) | ![](/olcweb/styles/shared/spacer.gif) | recognize the milestones in the development of human communication |
![](/olcweb/styles/shared/spacer.gif) | ![](/olcweb/styles/shared/spacer.gif) | ![](/olcweb/styles/shared/spacer.gif) | understand the role that these advances played in prompting significant changes in our culture and society |
![](/olcweb/styles/shared/spacer.gif) | ![](/olcweb/styles/shared/spacer.gif) | ![](/olcweb/styles/shared/spacer.gif) | learn that the emergence of new communications advances changes but does not make extinct those communications that came before |
![](/olcweb/styles/shared/spacer.gif) | ![](/olcweb/styles/shared/spacer.gif) | ![](/olcweb/styles/shared/spacer.gif) | understand that each advance in communication increases our power to convey and record -information |
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