Understanding media: -

1. What do you mean by the term mass media?

Ans: Media refers to all means of communication, everything ranging from a phone call to the evening
news on TV can be called media. TV, radio, and newspapers are a form of media that reaches millions of
people, or the masses, across the country and the world, thus called mass media.

2. Name two different types of media along with examples.

Ans: There are mainly two types of media Print Media and Electronic Media.

An example of print media is magazines, Newspapers, and catalogues.

An example of electronic media is TV, Radio, etc.

3. How is technology helping in communications?

Ans:

4. Write the importance of the internet.

Ans: The importance of the internet is:

 It helps us communicate with the outside world in the comfort of our homes.
 It helps us to search for many informative and knowledgeable things and gain more knowledge.
 It helps us to entertain ourselves.

5. How media makes money?

Ans: The different technologies that mass media use are expensive. Just Think about the TV audio in which
the newsreader sits – It has lights, cameras, sound recorders transmission satellites, etc., all of which cost a
lot of money.

6. Write two different types of public protest:

Ans: The two different types of public protest:

 Signature campaign
 Rally
7. What do you understand by a balanced report?

Ans: A Balanced report is one that discusses all points of view of a particular story and then leaves it to the
readers to make up their minds.

8. Write a few examples of social media in the contemporary world.

Ans: A few examples of social media in the contemporary world:

 Hangouts
 Instagram
 WhatsApp
 Facebook
 Twitter
 Twitch
  Discord
 Telegram
 Tiktok
 Linkin
 pintrest
9. What is the importance of media.
Media is the plural form of the word ‘medium’ and it describes the various ways through which
we communicate in society. media refers to all means of communication, everything ranging from
a phone call to the evening news on TV can be called media. TV, radio and newspapers are a
form of media that reaches millions of people, or the masses, across the country and the
worldTelevision has enabled us to think of ourselves as members of a larger global world