" The medium is the message"

Cell phones, computers, new papers, television, radio, posters, billboards, movies, magazines, books, mp3's , catalogues.These are just a few ways we are all connected and provided with information that reach a very large group of people. The mass media is a means of communication to a large audience. These few items listed above are ways that people can communicate with one another in seconds. In a previous blog " Can you hear that?... its radio!" I mentioned that, a specific technology was created in the 1920's (the radio). This was not only a revolution for businesses to make deals with one another quickly and more efficiently, but the beginning of many other mass medias to come. Magazines, catalogues, books and newspapers were also apart of this revolution to connect the world.

It was first introduced as a means for businesses to communicate with one another quickly so that deals could be made quicker. Today in the 20th century it has grown to be more than that. Mass communication is now a means of entertainment for the public, an act of enrichment to education, also it is easier to receive information that concerns the public, and of course like in the 1920's an enrichment for businesses themselves in terms of marketing, public relations, propaganda and more noticeably now than ever, with our upcoming election, political communication . Even as early as 1960 philosophers like Marshal McLuhan became fixated on the idea that "the medium is the message". Now more than ever, this quote is true.

We the public have become fixated on media. The idea that we can access numerous amounts of information on various topics boggles our minds and in some cases takes over our daily routines.

n/a, mass media, purposes, forms, October 14, 2008, Wikipedia, october 14, 2008, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_media#Purposes

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