Arrange the following space-biased media of communication, as identified by…

CONCEPT

A chronological ordering question is solved by assigning each medium its earliest established historical period and then sorting the media from the oldest to the newest.

Innis's space-bias distinction concerns media suited to wide dissemination; chronology is determined by the historical emergence of the media, not by the order in which they appear in the list.

APPLICATION

1. Papyrus was used as a writing medium in ancient Egypt, from roughly the third millennium BCE.

2. Paper was developed in ancient China and is conventionally dated to about 105 CE.

3. Regular printed newspapers emerged in Europe in the early seventeenth century.

4. Radio broadcasting became established in the early twentieth century.

5. Television broadcasting developed after radio and became a mass medium in the mid-twentieth century.

CROSS-CHECK AND CONTRAST

The dates increase consistently as ancient writing media give way to print, audio broadcasting, and then audiovisual broadcasting.

• Radio → Papyrus → Paper → Newspaper → Television reverses the ancient-to-modern transition at its beginning.

• Paper → Newspaper → Television → Radio → Papyrus places Papyrus last and Television before Radio.

• Newspaper → Television → Radio → Paper → Papyrus reverses several major historical transitions.

Therefore, the chronological sequence is Papyrus → Paper → Newspaper → Radio → Television.