Mass Communication

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Our first lecture in journalism was about the definition of journalism. A if part of this definition has to do with mass communication. This is when your message has the potential to reach a mass audience, which all journalists want to do. We spent a good hour and a half talking about this but it didn't stop with just that one lecture. Mass communication is such a huge part of journalism that it comes up  in almost all of our discussions.

      There are two big things that define mass communication and I think that these are very important . One is that it is lost in time and space meaning that you can see it anytime you want which means you don't have to be there at that place or even in the same decade. With the biggest mass communication, meaning the Internet, we can go on YouTube and watch talk shows from the 90s or earlier. The other big thing is that you don't get immediate feedback. 

     I believe that it's very appropriate to talk about mass communication often. It is such a big part of what makes up a journalist. If we didn't have the potential to reach millions, even billions, of people then journalism would probably not be as big or as influential as it is today.

Mass Communication in the 21st century
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