'''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 [[book]]s and [[manuscript]]s) were present centuries before the term became common. | '''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 [[book]]s and [[manuscript]]s) were present centuries before the term became common. |