The Evolution of Communication Media Inside the Philippines.
Before the technology age of the Philippines we encountered different types of Communication Media inside the country so let’s go back and witness the Evolution of media inside the Philippines. Let’s start on the age of stone and metal where every documents, agreements and new laws were written at the Stone, bar of the trees, on the leaves and bamboo tubes through the use of sharp objects that could be announced by the umaholokan (announcer) around the Community. Pre-colonial year came, literature was well developed new ways of communicating and writing was shown. Colonizer introduced a total new way of living. At the Spanish colonial rule, the first newspaper was published inside the country and heroes uses pen to expose colonial exploitation and seek independence in the most non-violent ways. The American Colonial Period came the broadcasting was introduced there where three radio station established by the American people, the first movie was introduced also on this era. World War II broke out every newspaper was disbanded except to those newspapers that could use by the Japanese but Filipinos make a new way of sharing their information through typewriter even though it could lead them to death. Today at the age of technology Philippines become interest in the new way of communication process Philippines is a free country anymore we have social media people are more free to share what they want to without the fear of being killed by the law. because of pandemic social media become people’s way of sharing their thoughts and information advancement of technologies make the way of communicating easy and effective. Learning is not problem anymore even though you are inside of isolation due to pandemic. Time flies fast, decades ago Filipino people uses their pens to write and create a letter to send to their family or love once just to inform them that they are in a good hand, doing good or having a hard time and weak from a far. Distance affect the sending letter period those who are abroad takes 2-3weeks or even 1 month just to receive the letter but today we are inside the period where Filipino people can talk to their relatives easily, just open your Face time call application and you can talk to them easily like being with them face to face because you could see their laugh tears and joy. The pen is mightier than the sword according to an English author Lytton and Rizal himself uses pen as his weapon to fight for his own country he opens the eyes of every Filipino people through his novel, his writing becomes inspiration to Andrés Bonifacio and fight for our own freedom. But today social networking sites become the Filipino’s way of expressing their thoughts and ideas we can say what we want to, we are free to show our opinions regarding the government and law without a fear of being criticized and defined as criminal by the law because we are inside a free country now. Let’s appreciate every step of communication media, everything works now because of the knowledge and hard work of every people in the past. This is part of my requirements at Development Communication 110-Intro to Communication Media hope you learn a lot on this blog! Have a bless day a head.
