Hello there friends! This week’s blog assignment is to define Mass Media and Mass Communication. My literally definition might be a little different from the book. Simply, I am lazy and don’t want to go grab it, so I just look it up on Wikipedia (yes its back up, but they claim they aren’t done yet). The answer on Wikipedia defines mass communication as the transition of messages from a sender to a large group of people through various types of media. Those types of media can be newspapers, television, internet, etc. To me that says that you take a message and you do all you can to make it reach throughout the world. Sometimes this can be a difficult thing to do. There are so many aspects of life a message has to touch. A TV commercial that is meant to be funny might make a teenager laugh but not the older generation. The same goes with TV shows. Has anyone ever been watching something then your grandmother walk in and you automatically turn it? You are afraid she might not approve or understand it. Shows are generally targeted towards a certain generation. Generally, all the aspects of mass media interest me. The only things I don’t like about it are the commercials in the middle of shows. I understand though, that is how they make their money. Well, I guess that is all I have to say about that. I hope your day has been wonderful and your week is great! Thank you for reading!
-Cheyenne
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
-John Lennon
