Media and

communication
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 Media and communication
Since Ancient Rome…

Media - In communication, the
media or medium stand
for the means used to
record and transmit information. Now
the mass media includes the press,
radio, television, video, and the
Internet
Forms of communication
Topics

Soft and hard

news

Newspaper Online news

Social
networking Television,
sites radio
Blog-vlog

Magazines
News

Soft news Hard news

• Entertainment • Politics

• Celebrity • Internationl affairs

• Lifestyle news • Buisness news

Newspaper
Quality papers - a newspaper, typically a
broadsheet, that is considered to deal seriously
with issues and to have high editorial standards
• Follow and analyse national and international
hard news in depth
• Serious in tone and use objective language, wider
vocabulary (standard English)
• The emphasis is on the text
Tabloid papers - a newspaper that is about half the
page size of an ordinary newspaper and that contains
news in condensed form and much photographic matter
• Report news in less depth and liven up on scandal
• The use of simpler but more subjective, persuasive
language
• Make far greater use of photos
Magazines
Magazine - A periodical publication (published every week/ month) containing articels and
illustrations, often on a particular subject or aimed at a particular readership

• Types of circulation
• Paid
• Non-paid
• Controlled

• Types of magazines
• Sport, fashion, film
• Celebrity, human interest, and gossip
• Etc…
Television
Types of television
• Public television - Television that provides cultural, informational,
and instructional programs for the public and that is financed by a
combination of government, private, and corporate sources

• Commercial television - Television companies which make money by

selling advertising

• Satellite television - Television broadcast using a satellite to relay

signals to appropriately equipped customers in a particular area
Online news
Social-networking sites, blog – vlog

Online news - An online newspaper (or electronic news or electronic news publication) is the
online version of a newspaper, either as a stand-alone publication or as the online version of a
printed periodical

• Blog - vlog

• Social media sites

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