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Mass Communication

A few days ago in class, we learned about an exciting new aspect of multi-media, mass communication. Spending an hour and a half on just this one topic might sound a little boring, however, it was the opposite.

What is Mass Communication?

It is a way that the modern society can communicate with a mass audience. A good example of this would be Youtube. With Youtube, if you were to upload a video, you have the possibility to communicate with all most anyone and everyone, whenever, and where ever they are. However, this is not true for email or text. Although you might be able to send something out to a large group of people, it does not have the possibility to reach everyone like Youtube can, therefore email and text is not mass communication.

How does this affect me?

Believe it or not but mass communication has an effect on your everyday life, suppose your friends were talking about some funny video they watch on youtube or a big event they read about in the newspaper, both of those things are mass communication. This example shows that mass communication is constantly affecting us. 

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