"Mediatization of the Youth"

Rev.Fr. Christian Buenafe O'carm

Mass Media

Mass media is a term used to denote a section of the media specifically envisioned and designed to reach a very large audience such as the population of a nation state. It was coined in the 1920s with the advent of nationwide radio networks, mass-circulation newspapers and magazines, although mass media (like books and manuscripts) were present centuries before the term became common. The term public media has a similar meaning: it is the sum of the public mass distributors of news and entertainment across media such as newspapers, television, radio, broadcasting, which may require union membership in some large markets such as Newspaper Guild, AFTRA, & text publishers. The concept of mass media is complicated in some internet media as now individuals have a means of potential exposure on a scale comparable to what was previously restricted to select group of mass media producers. These internet media can include:

• television,
• personal web pages,
• message boards,
• podcasts,
• blogs and
• video hosting services.

The communications audience has been viewed by some commentators as forming a mass society with special characteristics, notably atomization or lack of social connections, which render it especially susceptible to the influence of modern mass-media techniques such as advertising and propaganda. The term "MSM" or "mainstream media" has been widely used in the blogosphere in discussion of the mass media and media bias.

Internet plays very great role in the evolution in the media. Because of it the Contribution of
Internet in the media is the internet is the one who deal some important news just like
the Television do. The work process of dealing in the internet in so very clear.Internet radio and television stations require significant bandwidth to support delivery of high quality audio and video streams to a large number of receivers is one of the contribution of the internet in the world of media.

Internet became a tool in media if it is use as a television or a radio. If you use the
internet in knowing what you want to know is the role of media so that it become a tool
of Media.

Computer technology is the new technology which is very popular. that computer technology
is very powerful in terms of media because that is the one who make to the media a real difference.