Topic: Discussion of mass communications

Mass communication: Communication from one person or group of people,

through a medium, to many different people at once

Communication revolution:

- The development of phonetic writing

 writing moved away from using pictographs
 Example: people represented the sound with three letters, D-O-G.
The invention of printing and the printing press
 a printing press meant that information could be reproduced quickly
 with the printing press, information was more accessible, so it was
accessible to everyone
- The invention of computers

Ideas key to mass communication:

- The ability to store information

- The ability to transport information
- The ability to have easy access to information