1.2 Intersection of American Media and Culture
1. Distinguish between mass communication and mass media. mass communication is the study on how television, radio or any other media work. How media transmit their content and communicate with the consumers. Mass media is media that can be consumed all at once by many people at the same time. The media that people can immediately consume the masses on the whole such as radio, television, and newspapers.
2. identify key points in American media and culture.
In today's world smartphones and social media have become one of the strongholds of everyone lives. we reach out to our cell phones before doing anything else. Since media has developed drastically people searching where to eat, what to
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3.Serving as a public forum for the discussion of important issues media allow us to express our opinions and learning from other people perspective. 4.Acting as a watchdog for government, business, and other institutions to ensure that the government is being responsible and transparent.to ensure citizens beneficially.
2.Recognize events that affected the adoption of mass media.
In the past, people read the actual newspapers not the electronic newspapers on their phone. they can only read news daily, but now we can search news on the internet from the past ten years, twenty years or more than that and it's also less production's cost and it easy to access.
3.Explain how different technological transitions have shaped media industries. technology allows us to access to media easier and much faster. nowadays media working against time they trying to get their news out as soon as possible, so sometimes their contents aren't good enough or aren't as accurate. 1.4 Convergence
1.Identify examples of convergence in contemporary