MDSA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Linear Model, Socratic Method, Industrial Revolution
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Mass media are the cultural industries channels of communications that produce and distribute songs , novels, tv shows, video games, and other cultural products to a large number of people. Mass communication- the process of designing cultural messages and stories and delivering them to large audiences through media channels. Also accompanied the shift of rural to urban settings and the rise of consumer culture. Then as alphabets came there was written and manuscripts, Socratic method debate and public conversations used in college classrooms university,. Began in china, then in germany there were type writers . Books were large and expensive and usually purchased by the wealthy and royal. But the machine production of mass quantities that had resulted in lowered cost of books became a factor in mass production of other goods which led to the industrial revolution. Printing press fostered nationalism, in england pamphlets were printed by government, control presses, democratize knowledge.
