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Brielle Benedetto

Mass Media Communications: What is mass media? Mass media communication is a person or group of people or organizations that form a message through any type of newspaper, magazine, TV station, internet source, or radio station. It single handily focuses on the content of communication to persuade or otherwise affect the attitude or opinion of the demographic of the person the message is trying to be received to. If you look around you, you'll find that the whole world is connected to mass media. Advertisements on the TV or billboards, websites, news articles, social outlets etc. are all around you. There are so many resources that can help students who are studying in this field. For students studying in this major one of the most helpful methods is to do your own personal experiments by exposing people to different forms of media outlets and seeing their reaction to each one. As well as conducting your own experiments there are many helpful online resources available to mass media students. For online resources there is nothing better then looking at newscast websites and seeing the way the news reporters talk and present the news. For example: http://www.cnn.com http://www.foxnews.com http://abcnews.go.com http://www.cbs.com http://www.nbc.com

Other online resources that can be available to students would be looking at your school's or other school's library database and type in the section referring to communications and mass media. Great examples of database resources are.. http://rwu.libguides.com/COMM101 http://libraries.uky.edu/record.php?lir_id=121 http://libguides.babson.edu/cmmc http://www.lib.jmu.edu/resources/more.aspx?id=1584

One of the best resources are newspapers online. By reading the newspaper students are able to grasp a better understanding of the whole media outlet and the way society presents. Students can learn how an editor or writer explains their point of view on a topic in today's society. Some great examples of newspaper articles would be.. http://www.nytimes.com http://online.wsj.com/home-page http://www.huffingtonpost.com http://www.bostonglobe.com http://www.umassmedia.com

When students are trying to find different examples of mess media, a great website is https://www.youtube.com. YouTube is a wonderful media resource because students can look up any advertisement from pretty much anywhere. Advertisement is a major media outlet that can vary from product to product. By having students use Youtube as a resource they can analyze the advertisement and really focus on what the product or overall message of the ad is trying to get across to. Here are some advertisements that are controversial that have been brought up in media outlets. http://www.creativebloq.com/advertising/10-controversial-ad-campaigns-2013-12135346 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKuQrKeGe6g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=443Vy3I0gJs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4wNMOapzyw

Not only is YouTube great for looking up advertisements but as well as having tutorials talking about mass media and explaining what the whole concept is all about. Here are some great videos on mass media as a whole. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgUE4BeWM-g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOQ1jZOj_ho https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZkC_fNxmQk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmesU3WyiA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkkAXkhKg98

Throughout all these types of online resources the social online resources is the best way that connects the newspaper, databases, and newscast stations together. By using Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest all of these forms of recourses intertwine, making these social medias the best way to access information from credible sources. Using these outlets is becoming the smartest way of current mess media students to have a better understanding of the concept of their major.