What are the main mass media?

The main mass media are newspapers, magazines, radio, television and the Internet.

1. Newspapers

Newspaper(s) are printed publications or electronic newspapers that are regularly distributed to the public, mainly carrying news and current affairs commentaries. It is an important carrier of mass communication, with the function of reflecting and guiding social opinion.

2. Magazines

The formation of "magazines" originated from the propaganda pamphlets used during strikes, strikes or wars. These pamphlets, which were similar to those that emphasized the timeliness of newspapers, took into account more detailed commentaries, and a new medium arose for this particular reason. One of the earliest magazines published was the Scholars' Magazine, published in Amsterdam in January 1665 by the Frenchman Salo.

China's earliest Chinese medicine magazine - "Wu Medical Lectures", founded in the Qing Dynasty Qianlong fifty-seven years (1792 AD), stopped publication in the Qing Jiaqing six years (1801 AD), before and after 10 years, *** published 11 volumes, each volume is bound as a book, is similar to the nature of the annual Chinese medicine magazines.

3, radio

Broadcasting was born in the 1920s. The advantages of broadcasting is a wide range of objects, rapid dissemination, versatile, infectious; disadvantages are fleeting, sequential listening, can not be selected, the language barrier is difficult to listen to.

Broadcasting is the most common form of multipoint delivery, which delivers a packetized copy to each destination station. It can be accomplished by multiple single packet deliveries, or by passing copies of packets over separate connections until each receiver receives a copy.

4. Television

Television uses electricity to transmit visual images of activity instantaneously. Similar to a movie, television uses the visual residual effect of the human eye to display a frame-by-frame gradation of still images to create a visually active image.

The transmitting end of a television system converts the various subtle parts of a scene into electrical signals in terms of brightness and chromaticity and then transmits them sequentially. In the receiving end according to the corresponding geometric position of the brightness and chromaticity of each micro-part of the reproduction of the entire original image. The progress of science and technology is an important reason for the rapid popularization of television.

5, the network

The network will use the text reading, picture viewing, audio and video playback, download and transmission, games, chat and other software tools from the text, pictures, sound, video and other aspects of the people to bring people an extremely rich life and wonderful enjoyment.

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