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Mass Communication Internet

If we take the development of radio, motion pictures, and television as examples of mass communications forms, we see how similar the development of the Internet continues to be to its mass communications sector predecessors. One area where this is particularly true has to do with the regulatory mechanisms which traditionally develop and the issues to which they pertain when it comes to forms of mass communications. For example, while radio, motion pictures, and television all differ from each other and the Internet, there are important similarities shared by all of them. This analysis will address these similarities in order to demonstrate why the Internet will most assuredly become a component within the mass communications sector in the first decade of the new millenium.

While radio, motion pictures, television, and the Internet are different from one another, they all share important similarities that argue in favor of the Internet being a component of the mass communications sector. This is particularly true when it comes to both the internal and external regulatory mechanisms and issues pertaining to them that arose for all of these forms of mass communication. Self-censorship and government censorship impact all four of these medium. Further, the pervasive spread of the Internet and increasing access to it has raised many questions about regulation, privacy, security, impact on children, advertising, information accuracy, and monopolistic control (Hargittai, 2000, 2). All of these kinds of issues give shape to the mass communications landscape even as it develops. As many of these issues are being addressed presently in relation to the Internet, so, as Hargittai (2000, 1) notes “All of these issues had to be addressed at the beginning of the 20th century in relation to the dissemination of wireless communication, namely the radio.”

The Internet up until now has enjoyed the image of being the people’s mass com...

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Mass Communication Internet. (1969, December 31). In LotsofEssays.com. Retrieved 11:45, March 28, 2024, from https://www.lotsofessays.com/viewpaper/1685922.html