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MASS MEDIA AND ITS EVOLUTION AS AN
INFLUENCE POWER
• Can we ever imagine life without smartphones, televisions or internet? Possibly not! Right?
Mass media is communication whether written, broadcast, or spoken; that reaches a large audience.
It includes:
IMPORTANT OF MASS MEDIA
Mass media’s influence on people’s lives is even greater and deeper than many kinds of state indoctrination or priest’s sermons from the pulpit in the church .
TIMELINE OF MASS MEDIA
EARLY YEARS.-
THE BOOK AND NEWSPAPER.-
TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE
RADIO AND TELEVISION
INTERNET AND SMARTPHONES
TELEGRAPH: Samuel Morse
TELÉPHONE: Alexander Graham-Bell
COMPUTER: Charles Babbage
MOBILE PHONES: Martin Cooper
PRINTING PRESS: Johannes Gutenberg
TELEVISION: J. L. Baird
WORLD WIDE WEB (WWW): Tim Berners-Lee
FACEBOOK: Mark Zukerberg
GOOGLE: Larry Page and Sergey Brin
TWITTER: Jack Dorsey
IMPORTANT INVENTIONS AND GREAT COLLABORATORS
CONCLUSIONSMass media has become an integral part of our lives and cannot be separated from our life. Particularly for the urban people, the need for information is more important than ever. Our values and way of life in the society in this information era are strongly influenced by the mass media like newspapers, TV, radio, video, and the internet.
Mass Media is a super-power that has connected the world in multiple ways. Civilization will progress and its means of sharing intelligent thought will keep evolving over time.