Mass Media

Mass Media

Definition: The means of communication that reach large numbers of people in a short time, such as televisions, newspapers, magazines, and radio.

Example:

- Mass Media often times will juristic what we as a society should wear, what we shouldn't wear, what we eat, what we play with. The image above shows the what the media thinks boys should have interest in, and on the left we see how the media believes what girls should have interest in.   

Example from text: "The nonviolent protestors served to provoke the police at least as much as the anarchists did. Indeed, police violence against nonviolent protestors performing uncivil disobedience started before the anarchists acted. We suspect that the anarchists' symbolic violence justified intense media coverage of the police violence because media framing often portrayed the police violence as a response to the anarchists. In other words, the presence of the anarchists allowed the media to provide some sort of explanation, however inadequate, of a police force out of control" (DeLuca and Peeples 193-194).

Citation:
mass media. (n.d.) Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014. (1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014). Retrieved February 5 2016 from http://www.thefreedictionary.com/mass+media