SOCA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 18: Mass Media, Samuel Morse, Growth Factor
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Mass media have created the feeling that the only realities present is the fantasy worlds: persuasive and influenctial as religions was 500-600 years. Our lifestyles are influenced by mass media. Def : print, radio, television, and other communication technologies: mass : reaches everyone, media : no face to face interaction but technology interferes, one sided : few senders and many receivers. Printing: appeared 5500 years ago in egypt and mesopotamia, great hit in the 19th century, newspaper appeared first in us 1830s, dominate mass medium in late 1950s. Telegraphic signal: samuel morse sent first in 1844, no more physical transportation needed in communication. Electronic media: 20th century creatures, first tv broadcast 1920s, internet 1991. Causes of media growth: religious - reading, political t. v, economical, the protestant reformation. 16 century, catholic relied on priests to tell them what was in the bible. 1517, martin luther king wanted the people to have a personal relationship with the bible.
