University Of Phoenix Material: Effects Of Mass Media Worksheet

University of Phoenix Material

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 |The radio, television, computer, and internet are development of mass media over the last |
|evolution of mass media during the 20th |century with media convergence they had their own influence on American culture. Radio was|
|century? |the first form of wireless mass communication, television giving sight and sound to the |
| |current events and then computer and internet making everything at
your fingertips. Along |
| |with that, you have media coming together that gives us choices on what to watch and how |
| |to watch the story. Even with the development of television radio did not go away. All |
| |three of these developments have been intertwined with each other. Even though there are |
| |years between the invention of each they did not simply just replace one another. The |
| |development of the television did take some of the aspects of radio away such as old radio|
| |shows with them being replaced by television shows. However there are still news programs|
| |and other forms of mass notifications on the radio besides just music. The internet has |
| |allowed people to start watching television online and listen to radio stations online as |
| |well. This means that even if you are not in the area where a particular station is |
| |available you are still able to listen or watch it. I personally like a radio station |
| |that is played down in Washington D.C. I have an internet application that allows me to |
| |still listen to it and hear my favorite morning show. The developments I believe have led |
| |to one another in some way or form that without the one that came before there would not |
| |have been the later breakthroughs that lead to the others.
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|How did each development influence | |
|American culture? |The development of the radio, television and the internet has great influenced American |
| |culture in their own ways. The radio had given Americans a new form of both entrainment as|
| |well as a way to have information passed easily over a large amount of people. With that |
| |development print while still important was not the only way to have information and |
| |entrainment move throughout large amounts of people. Today the radio is still present in |
| |most people’s lives as they go through out their day. I personally like to listen to
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| |music on the way to work or when I work out. The development of the television may have |
| |taken some of the things away from radio such as radio shows but for the most part radio |
| |has remained unchanged. I think that television has played a huge roll in people’s lives. |
| |People have their favorite tv shows as well as networks. I personally like to watch tv |
| |shows that are on food network. Television has made it easier to get the news. |
| |Television has made its way from needing an antenna to being able to have satellite tv or |
| |through cable which has given us the option to record or tv digitally so that we can watch|
| |our favorite shows and movies on our own time. The internet has made its way into almost |
| |every part of our lives as a country. We have the internet on our cellular phones, on |
| |video game systems, at work and school. Places from restaurants to grociery stores now |
| |offer free wifi internet for people to use while at their business. The internet aslo |
| |offers people a way to get the same information and entertainment from tv and radio in one|
| |place. |