What is mass communication? According to our Mass Communication Theory text, it is “when a source, typically an organization, employs a technology as a medium to communicate with a large audience (p. 5).” Above, I have displayed for you all a great example, and personally two of my favorite media of mass communication: Visiting NPR, my third visit to the Newseum, and a few shots from the WGMU Radio livestream I am happy to announce that I am a part of. Radio and newspaper I would say are two of many media I have been able to participate in. In terms of how news and information are distributed, I have become passionate over public radio more than anything at this moment in time. While mass communication focuses on the feedback from people who consume media, (although public radio is indirect as well in the sense that it is delivered to a mass population without them being able to bounce back as frequent) public radio/radio stations to me seem a lot more considerate of their audience, almost to a personal level. We rely mostly on tone, vocabulary, storytelling, which to me is a riveting, intriguing manner of drawing attention in the radio industry… Anyway, that’s basically my small take on those specific mediums in terms of mass comm.
-Elna