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  • mass medium n. , pl. mass media . A means of public communication reaching a large audience. ... Mass media are tools for the transfer of information, concepts, ...
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mass media?
What can You tell me about mass media.?(you know, like : TV, radio...and etc ) positive and negative things...what usefull we can hear from them...does mass media, in different countrys, can help us to know more about that place, about thet country culture?
Mass media is a term used to denote a section of the media specifically envisioned and designed to reach a very large audience such as the population of a nation state. It was coined in the 1920s with the advent of nationwide radio networks, mass-circulation newspapers and magazines, although mass media was present centuries before the term became common. The term public media has a similar meaning: it is the sum of the public mass distributors of news and entertainment across mediums such as newspapers, television, radio, broadcasting, which require union membership in large markets such as Newspaper Guild and AFTRA, & text publishers. The concept of mass media is complicated in some internet media as now individuals have a means of potential exposure on a scale comparable to what was previously restricted to select group of mass media producers. These internet media can include personal web pages, podcasts and blogs. The communications audience has been viewed by some commentators as forming a mass society with special characteristics, notably atomization or lack of social connections, which render it especially susceptible to the influence of modern mass-media techniques such as advertising and propaganda. The term "MSM" or "mainstream media" has been widely used in the blogosphere in discussion of the mass media and media bias. Timeline c1400: Appearance of European popular prints. 1453: Johnannes Gutenberg uses his printing press to print the bible, making books freely acceptable to many people during the Renaissance. 1620: First newspaper (or coranto) in English. 1825: Nicéphore Niépce takes the first permanent photograph. 1830: Telegraphy is independently developed in England and the United States. 1876: First telephone call made by Alexander Graham Bell. 1878: Thomas Alva Edison patents the phonograph. 1890: First juke box in San Francisco's Palais Royal Saloon. 1890: Telephone wires are installed in Manhattan. 1895: Cinematograph invented by Auguste and Louis Lumiere. 1896: Hollerith founds the Tabulating Machine Co. It will become IBM in 1924. 1897: Guglielmo Marconi patents the wireless telegraph. 1898: Loudspeaker is invented. 1902: Daily Nation is started in Kenya. 1906: The Story of the Kelly Gang from Australia is world's first feature length film. 1909: RMS Republic, a palatial White Star passenger liner, uses the Marconi Wireless for a distress at sea. She had been in a collision. This is the first "breaking news" mass media event. 1912: Air mail begins. 1913: Edison transfers from cylinder recordings to more easily reproducible discs. 1913: The portable phonograph is manufactured. 1915: Radiotelephone carries voice from Virginia to the Eiffel Tower. 1916: Tunable radios invented. 1919: Short-wave radio is invented. 1920: KDKA-AM in Pittsburgh, United States, becoming the world's first commercial radio station. 1922: BBC is formed and broadcasting to London. 1924: KDKA created a short-wave radio transmitter. 1925: BBC broadcasting to the majority of the UK. 1926: NBC is formed. 1927: The Jazz Singer: The first motion picture with sounds debuts. 1927: Philo Taylor Farnsworth debuts the first electronic television system. 1928: The Teletype was introduced. 1933: Edwin Armstrong invents FM Radio. 1935: First telephone call made around the world. 1936: BBC opened world's first regular (then defined as at least 200 lines) high definition television service. 1938: The War of the Worlds is broadcast on October 30, causing mass hysteria. 1939: Western Union introduces coast-to-coast fax service. 1939: Regular electronic television broadcasts begin in the US. 1939: The wire recorder is invented in the US. 1940: The first commercial television station, WNBT (now WNBC-TV)/New York signs on the air. 1948: Cable television becomes available in the US. 1951: The first color televisions go on sale. 1957: Sputnik is launched and sends back signals from near earth orbit. 1959: Xerox makes the first copier. 1960: Echo I, a US balloon in orbit, reflects radio signals to Earth. 1962: Telstar satellite transmits an image across the Atlantic. 1963: Audio cassette is invented in the Netherlands. 1963: Martin Luther King gives "I have a dream" speech. 1965: Vietnam War becomes first war to be televised. 1967: Newspapers, magazines start to digitize production. 1969: Man's first landing on the moon is broadcast to 600 million people around the globe. 1970s: ARPANET, progenitor to the internet developed. 1971: Intel debuts the microprocessor. 1972: Pong becomes the first video game to win widespread popularity. 1975: The MITS Altair 8800 becomes the first pre-assembled desktop computer available on the market. 1976: JVC introduces VHS videotape - becomes the standard consumer format in the 1980s & 1990s. 1980: CNN launches. 1980: New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones put news database online. 1981: The IBM PC is introduced on 12 August. 1982: Philips and Sony put the Compact Disc on the Japanese market. It arrives on the US market early the following year. 1983: Cellular phones begin to appear. 1984: Apple Macintosh is introduced. 1985: CD-ROMs begin to be sold. 1985: Pay-per-view channels open for business. 1991: World Wide Web (WWW) publicly released by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN. 1993: CERN announces that the WWW will be free for anyone to use. 1996: First DVD players and discs are available in Japan. Twister is the first film on DVD. 1999: Napster contributes to the popularization of MP3. 2005: Media forms began to converge. The Palm Pilot and the BlackBerry became popular. E-mail accounts were now accessible via telephones. Claimed negative characteristics of mass media : Another description of Mass Media is central media meaning they emanate from a central point, the same identical message to numerous recipients. It is claimed this forces certain intrinsic constraints on the kind of messages and information that can be conveyed, such as: An inability to transmit tacit knowledge (or perhaps it can only transfer bad tacit knowledge as opposed to good), A focus on the unusual and sensational rather than a restatement of wisdom, The promotion of anxiety and fear to sell the newspaper / channel, etc. Simplification of complex issues so as to appeal to more sorts of people. It can be a conflict of interest when large corporations own large news outlets, and thusly, control what the people know, i.e. corporate propaganda. The manipulation of large groups of people through media outlets, for the benefit of a particular political party and/or group of people. One of the biggest critics in Media's history is Marshall McLuhan. He brought up the idea that "the medium is the message". This view of central media can be contrasted with lateral media, such as email networks, where messages are all slightly different and spread by a process of lateral diffusion.
How does mass media distractthe population from importantworld issues?
I'm doing an assignment on media hype, mind control and the use of advertisement as a distraction from world issues. I was just curious of what methods are used by Mass Media to distract people from major issues in the world today.
Distraction has long been a tool of the power elite to divert attention from their shady dealings, but I really think in today's society there is much less complicity and much more idiocy. 24 hour news channels have SO MUCH TIME to fill that they almost have to drone on about stupid stuff like what Sasha and Melia wore to school on their first day. Debbie-downer stories like genocide don't attract attention of viewers precisely because they are depressing. Ergo, viewers change the channel and CNN brings in less ad revenues. Therefore, they try to attract and hold your attention for as long as possible with saccharine stories designed to titillate rather than educate. Although, if you want to see something scary, try comparing the pre-WWII Nazi party propaganda with Bush, Jr.'s. That will be an eye-opener for you.
What mass media system do youexpect to go through a hugechange in the next severalyears?
I'm doing a project for a college class, but I don't know where to start. I have to explain how I think a mass media system will change, and be able to prove my theory. Any ideas?
what kind of mass media system? you mean how information will be gathered and given to the public?well, i guess more n more reality shows even on news channels.more publicity stunts.you may see less of objective data reporting and more of polarised views as corporates houses use media channels for their advantage. ads n entertainment programs will b more colorful,expensive n more aggressively marketed.each event in public will be viewed as an opportunity to increase TRPs....after all as some say its just business...
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