Hum 176 Wk 1

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Effects of Mass Media Worksheet

Write brief 250-to 300-word answers to each of the following:

|Questions |Answers |

|What were the major developments in the |During the early 20th century, magazines and newspapers were the primary source of mass |

|evolution of mass media during the 20th |media. Along came the radio in the 1940’s; it gave people live up to date information |

|century? |rather than waiting till the next day or few days later to hear announcements and |

| |important information. However, people still utilized newspapers and magazines even though|

| |they could get the news from the radio. Now in the 1950’s, something miraculous came |

| |about. It was the talk of the town and you would envy anybody that had one, the television|

| |came to life! It became the main source of mass media distribution, it was live and up to |

| |date, and you could listen to it, also watch a picture. Once the satellite was launched in|

| |1962 to give world news, our development of mass media and the way in which they are |

| |communicated has sky rocketed! We have developed cell phones, computers, internet, and |

| |tablets. The list keeps growing as well as how well each product performs. Take a look at |

| |the cell phone, when it was first developed, it was huge and bulky with an enormous |

| |antenna. Now a days it is paper thin, no antenna, and you can surf...