Types Of Mass Media

By hassam

Mass media can be defined as the media used for addressing or communicating with the masses. Anything that serves the source for communication amongst a large audience is included in the category of mass media.

Mass media is a broad term under which includes every thing or anything that conveys a message to the masses is included. From news papers to books, from radios to televisions, form the mobile phones to ipods and to the internet, all are included in the category of mass media.

Though the term was coined in the 1920’s when the radio and the television were revolutionizing the world into modern times, the concept of mass media is as old as the human civilization itself.

Different Types Of Advertising Media

Advertising Media
In simple terms, advertising is a way of promoting a product or a brand through different mediums. In broader terms, we can say that advertising is an act of getting peoples attention towards a brand, a product or even an event.

The only difference is that the lives of the past people did not depend on the mass media like our lives do today. We can not live without mass media as it surrounds us like a shadow.

The mass media is used by the masses for the following basic purposes:

To get news and information
For entertainment i.e. music, movies, sports and drama
For communicating with other people.

Serving the above purposes, below given are three broad categories of mass media:

See all 5 photos

Newspapers & Magazines

Types Of Information Sources

Information Sources
Information can be obtained through various means. A source that provides any kind of information is called an information source. There are basically two types of information sources.

Effects Of Television On Humans

Effects Of Television
While controversy continues to surround the way the content screen media affects our thoughts and behaviour, a growing body of empirical evidence is indicating that watching television causes physiological changes, which are really not for the better

Radio Broadcasting

Types Of Communication & Improving Communication

Types Of Communication
Communication is a natural process which takes place between all the living organisms on this planet. Every living being on this planet, whether its a human or an animal, cannot survive without communicating with its fellow beings.
How To Improve Communication Skills
Excellent communication skills are a requirement in your private and business days. A number of people are unsurprisingly fine communicators.But you need to give some amount of time to polish these hidden skills and come out as a better communicator.

CDs

ipods

Publishing Media

The publishing media is the oldest form of mass media. This media includes books, news papers and magazine. The concept of books is not new.

It is believed that the first ever book in the world was printed in 863 AD in China. Though it was the first book to be officially published, many historians claim that books has been released way before this time.

News papers are also not new. They were developed during the 17^th century in England and by the 19^th century were common mass media.

The publishing media or the print media is now are the only source of mass communication any more therefore there has been a decline in its popularity but still is a very important source of mass media still popular amongst the huge masses.

Broadcasting Media

The broadcasting media includes radio and television.

These two media are probably the most highlighted inventions of the 20^th century. The invention of radio changed the face of the earth forever.

People could now hear news form around the world live sitting at their homes.

Where radio initiated the concept of audio mass communication, television revolutionized the visual form of communication. Now the people could not only hear the news but they could also see it.

Although drama and plays had been popular even before the concept of any particular mass media, they were revolutionized into movies, films, and tele serials to be displayed on TV.

Sports were also recorded or broadcasted live via radios and televisions making the life of people easy who had to go to stadiums and buy tickets to watch a match of their favorite sport.

Similarly music videos, soaps, various talk shows started to become popular on televisions.

Today the broadcasting media is the most popular media amongst the masses.

News channels cover a story and an event within seconds of their occurring, keeping people updated minute by minute details of all the important events occurring in the world.

The Electronic Media

The electronic media is the new age media which includes computers, mobile phones, internet, ipods, CD players, tape recorders etc.

The electronic media is what our world revolves around today. Internet is believed to be the services of the services.

It is the media which connects the entire globe. It is the wonder of the modern world on which our modern age largely depends on.

If you want to search for something Google finds it for you in less than a second, through emails you can get connected to some one form another part of the world in just few seconds.

Another marvel of the modern age is the mobile phone. Mobile phones were first introduced in 1979 in Japan but they weren’t popular amongst the masses until the mid ‘90s.

Within the span of ten to fifteen years mobile phones have become so popular that the young generation can actually not live without it. Today mobile phones are not just simple portable telephones but they are more of computers.

Cassette players which have now been revolutionized into ipods and CD players were also an important invention.

The most important invention of them all is perhaps the computers which not only turned the electronic media around but also changed the face of modern technology. Without computers internet would have been impossible.

vote up vote downshare print flag

Was this Hub ...?

Types of Guitars

Types Of Doctors