Mass Media & Com
Talking on the phone, sending a text or DM, or writing an email are all examples of this type of communication channel.
What is a Medium?
This mass communication function is the primary function of modern newspapers.
What is Surveillance?
This medium remains the world’s most accessible form of mass communication because it’s widespread, easy to carry, and cheap to make, send, and receive.
What is Radio?
This individual is recognized as the creator of the World Wide Web.
Who is Tim Berners-Lee?
Until recently, this social media platform had its corporate roots in China.
What is TikTok?
These are four key functions of mass communication.
What are cultural, correlation, surveillance, and entertainment?
This year marks the invention of the mechanical printing press.
What is 1455?
In the United States, most radio stations generate revenue primarily through this source.
What are advertisements?
This term describes a network’s capacity and speed, determining how much data can be transmitted and how quickly it travels.
What is bandwidth?
Audience members that not only consume content but also create it.
What are ProdUsers?
Improvements in technology has done this to the cost/price of creating and distributing digital media.
What is lowered?
The period is often credited as the golden age of newspapers.
What is 1820-1920?
With so many shows in this medium competing for listeners’ attention, new ones struggle to stand out and “break through the noise.”
What are Podcasts?
The conversational nature of interactive media can tailor content to individuals, making it more __________ and __________.
What are Relevant and Compelling?
This type of social media content has grown increasingly influential in shaping consumers’ decisions on everything from household items to media products.
What are ratings and reviews?
Over the past fifty years, traditional media companies have become fewer but larger through mergers and acquisitions, a process known as this.
What is consolidation?
In the last ten years, this hedge fund has acquired numerous newspaper companies across the United States.
What is Alden Global Capital?
Passed in the early 20th century, this law was designed to bring order to the then-chaotic and mostly unregulated airwaves.
What is the Radio Act of 1927?
Marc Andreessen created this groundbreaking graphical web browser, considered the first of its kind.
What is Mosaic?
This section of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 protects online platforms from legal liability for user content, reducing their motivation to moderate it.
What is Section 230?
Historically, major media companies kept these four key functions under centralized control.
What are content, production, distribution, and marketing?
Passed in 1970, this law aimed to preserve a variety of editorial viewpoints in cities served by only two competing daily newspapers
What is the Newspaper Preservation Act?
These types of record labels release the MAJORITY of music titles.
What are independent (or indie) labels?
Wikipedia, Mozilla Firefox, and the Linux Operating System are all examples of this movement?
What is the FOSS [Free and Open Source] movement?
Unlike traditional media, social platforms rely on this type of many-to-many communication model.
What is Dialogic?