Communication is the way in which information is shared between two parties – a sender and a receiver. The information is exchanged in various ways and culminated through many different mediums such as voice, text, image and many more. Since the beginnings of our existence, humans have communicated to each other through simple paintings such as cave drawings to body language. As technology has evolved, information exchanged is now at its fastest rate of exchange due to our emergence in a digital world. The uses for this information exchange are used for news, economics, and even social networking. Manifested through language, this modern way in exchanging information and ideas has transformed the globe to become an interconnected society thus creating mass communication. Mass communication is the network in which there is information exchanged between large amounts of people. This has created fast and efficient information exchange by in turn creating more information being transmitted. Although systematic, through access mad easy to sending and receiving information there has been issues in validity and censorship. For example, this allows many people to send information that does not need to be validated, creating a database of false information. Also, censorships concerning issues of freedom of speech and certain “taboo” contextual issues create a paradigm shift in societies around the world. [1]
[1] Hardt, Hanno. Myths for the Masses: An Essay on Mass Communication. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2004. Book. p.
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