Effects of Mass Media Worksheet
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Effects of Mass Media Worksheet
Write brief 250-to 300-word answers to each of the following:
|Questions |Answers |
|What were the major developments in the |There were major developments in the evolution of mass media during the 20th century. It |
|evolution of mass media during the 20th |first started in the 19th century with Swedish soprano singer Jenny Lind in 1850. She had |
|century? |fans crazed over her music with what was called “Lindomania” that was spread through |
| |showbiz by showman P.T. Barnum. Then, about a century later, there was “Beatlemania”. I |
| |wish I was around for that, I love the Beatles. Anyhow, television was the main source of|
| |this frenzy of Beatlemania. They were on the Ed Sullivan Show and it was estimated 40% of |
| |the U.S. watched that night. That is an amazing number of people in the country watching |
| |such a show back in the 1960's. With all that being said, I would say that that |
| |television would be the main source that had developed and made a huge change in the way |
| |that media was sent and received. In the late 20th century, the internet started to evolve|
| |as well. That was a whole new level of media that no one was used to in the past years. |
| |Newspapers, magazines, and television were and are still popular but since the end of the |
| |20th century computers and that sort of technology has
Effects of Mass Media Worksheet
Write brief 250-to 300-word answers to each of the following:
|Questions |Answers |
|What were the major developments in the |There were major developments in the evolution of mass media during the 20th century. It |
|evolution of mass media during the 20th |first started in the 19th century with Swedish soprano singer Jenny Lind in 1850. She had |
|century? |fans crazed over her music with what was called “Lindomania” that was spread through |
| |showbiz by showman P.T. Barnum. Then, about a century later, there was “Beatlemania”. I |
| |wish I was around for that, I love the Beatles. Anyhow, television was the main source of|
| |this frenzy of Beatlemania. They were on the Ed Sullivan Show and it was estimated 40% of |
| |the U.S. watched that night. That is an amazing number of people in the country watching |
| |such a show back in the 1960's. With all that being said, I would say that that |
| |television would be the main source that had developed and made a huge change in the way |
| |that media was sent and received. In the late 20th century, the internet started to evolve|
| |as well. That was a whole new level of media that no one was used to in the past years. |
| |Newspapers, magazines, and television were and are still popular but since the end of the |
| |20th century computers and that sort of technology has