Effects of Mass Media

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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 major developments in evolution of mass media during the 20th century were newspaper, | |evolution of mass media during the 20th |radio, television, telephone, and Internet. These five developments plus more were big | |century? |factors for how our culture is today. Newspaper was a good way to get the news in the area| | |you lived in, and also news around the world. The newspaper is still widely used today | | |except many people can view it online, which we will get to. Then the radio was very | | |helpful and useful by being able to transport news without the use of any kind of wiring. | | |They also used radio to listen to different forms of entertainment such as programs that | | |had a storyline. They could also hear news broadcast to let them know what was going on in| | |the world. Television was an exciting new form of mass media and people loved it because | | |it was able to give people a visual of what they were hearing. They were able to hear and | | |see the news, hear and see a story that was being told, they could hear and see people | | |performing with singing, dancing and or just plain acting. The telephone was also exciting| |
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