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Effects of Mass Media Worksheet

Write brief 250-to 300-word answers to each of the following:
Keayondra Pryor
Hum/176
Due: 06/30/2013 Turned in: 07/1/2013
|Questions |Answers |
|What were the major developments in the |The major developments in the evolution of mass media during the 20th century was |
|evolution of mass media during the 20th |internet, mobile phones, printing and publishing technology –such as magazines, |
|century? |newspapers, pamphlets, and books, the stream powered printing press was discovered around |
| |the 20th century where it was more easier for people to get newspapers filled with any |
| |local news information also satellite usage boomed more, cinema –such as movies which did |
| |start of as silenced movies then later progressed with sound and movie theatre’s, radio |
| |which was major development. It was used to show different musical genres that were within|
| |music, created hit songs, and make starts of the artists, as well as the television. It is|
| |really neat how mass media evolved over the years and centuries. I really do not want to |
| |put it this way but people are mostly influenced by the things that have seen and that |
| |goes from now all the way to the past. When you think about it we are talking about the |
| |20th century and we are now in the 21st century ,so things after our century will just |
| |progress because we are the future and so it the 22nd century. In my opinion it is really |
| |cool to think about it in that way. What they have done in the 20th century we have |
| |continued but developed more things to be better and improved, and it will go on in that |
| |pattern for more centuries to come. |
|How did each development influence |Each development influenced American culture in a good way in my opinion. In the 20th |
|American culture? |century, mass entertainment grew to reach the American culture, reversing the direction of|
| |influence as Europe and the world became consumers of American popular culture. America |
| |was one of the top cultural source for entertainment and popular fashion, from music, |
| |fashion, and popular trends. The biggest group of people that these developments |
| |influenced was the young people who would listen to the radios and wear music group and |
| |rock stars clothing based off of what they have seen as well as movies which goes into |
| |cinema. A lot of people all over the world view American television shows and listen to |
| |American music as well. Then there is mobile phones, this development influenced American |
| |culture so much because now we can carry our phones around with us and make call and also |
| |send text messages to one another. Back before there were smartphones there was beepers, |
| |the huge cell phone that looked like a giant phone, and from then on the technology of the|
| |phones progressed. Now we have smartphones that talk back to you, you can browse the |
| |internet, send emails, listen to music, watch videos, play many different games, and take |
| |pictures, all at the same time. The mobile phone has been a great development but the |
| |truth about mobile phones in American culture it that if you have a mobile phone you |
| |cannot leave your phone alone more than 20 minutes not even a hour unless we are sleeping |
| |or extremely busy but even if that, most are attached to their phone like conjoined at the|
| |hip if I could put it that way, including to speak for myself. Mobile phones are a part of|
| |consumer culture. |