Newspapers' role in society.
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 01:57:00
Category: / Literature / North American
Length: 3 pages (760 words)
Category: / Literature / North American
Length: 3 pages (760 words)
Mass media is a distinctive element of today's society. Together, the different elements are a product of societal change, forced regulations, rising living standards, and technological modernization. Mass media includes mediums such as magazines, television, internet, radio, cinema, video games, and cellular telephones. The ability to mass communicate with these devices has had such a massive impact that Denis McQuail describes that "the mass media has primary and crucial importance for the integration of the …
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