SOCA01H3 Chapter Notes -Samuel Morse, Mass Media, Magic Johnson
Document Summary
Mass media are print, radio, television, and other communication technologies. Reaches out to a large group of people not using face to face interaction. Print media was dominant until around the 1950s. 1844 was when they samuel morse sent the first ever telegraphic signal. 1920s was the first commercial television broadcast. 1991 the world wide web was introduced. The protestant reformation priests tried to get people to build a relationship with the bible. Bible then became the first mass media product developed in the 1500s. Democratic movements political democracy, where politicians wanted votes they started to depend on television in the 1960s and radio before that. Capitalist industrialization using mass media for businesses to earn a profit. Coordinating the industrial and the post-industrial societies. (ex. People in canada knows a general sense of what"s happening in places like korea) Socialization is the process by which people learn their culture, including norms, values and roles.
