A SOCIAL NARRATIVE
Transcript - Video History
The technology of video emerged in the 1950s when even large networks like CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System) used VTR (video tape recorders) to broadcast the news. With the ever-growing demand of television, the 1980s took video to its first to be used power while in the comfort of your own home and in a form of video called VHS, video home system. During the 1980s, video evolved into laserdisc form you where you could not only fast forward and rewind, but advance by chapters and view bonus scenes from movies as an added feature and fast forward to the present time and now we have the pleasure of watching videos (digital recordings) in the palm of our own hands through portable devices. Cisco’s Annual Internet Report forecasted that by this year, 2020, about 80% of the internet’s traffic would be video. Low and behold, we have online videos going viral by the second. Today’s form of video has quickly replaced age-old television. We now have streaming devices such as Netflix, Crave and YouTube making its daily presence in social media and at your convenience. Smart technology records our daily screen usage and with smartphones making tools for video creation and consumption available for almost everyone. How much do you think of our presence online will be given toward video?
What is Video?
The National Inventors Hall of Fame describes video as “one of the most significant technological advances to affect broadcasting and program production since the beginning of television itself”.
Merriam Webster defines video as being, relating to, or used in the transmission involving images on a television screen or computer display.
The National Inventors Hall of Fame describes video as “one of the most significant technological advances to affect broadcasting and program production since the beginning of television itself”.
Merriam Webster defines video as being, relating to, or used in the transmission involving images on a television screen or computer display.
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“We are in the midst of a seismic shift in communications, from the world told through the medium of writing on the page of the book, magazine or newspaper, to the world shown through the medium of the visual on the screen.” - Cope and Kalantzis, 2009 |
"Over 72% of adults, who use the Internet, also use online Internet video-sharing." - Anderson, 2015 "Over 400 hours of new videos are uploaded to YouTube in a one-minute period." - Wojcicki, 2015 |
FUN FACTS
The first video uploaded to YouTube is entitled Me at the Zoo, a 20-second video of Jawed Karim, one of the YouTube founders, commenting on the elephants’ trunks (as cited in Hjorth et al., 2017; 2016).
How-to tutorials are the most popular form of Instagram video content (Newberry, 2019).
Provincial Health Committees in China have begun to communicate health-related information through TikTok, a micro-video sharing app (Zhu et al., 2019;2020).
How-to tutorials are the most popular form of Instagram video content (Newberry, 2019).
Provincial Health Committees in China have begun to communicate health-related information through TikTok, a micro-video sharing app (Zhu et al., 2019;2020).
VIDEO TIMELINE
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