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Synthesizing a working definition of "mass" media

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Potter, W. James

Abstract

Media scholars as well as the public frequently use the terms "mass communication" and "mass media", but the meaning of these terms is often ambiguous. While it is assumed that everyone knows what these terms mean, the few scholars who attempt to define these terms struggle to capture the essence o... mehr

Media scholars as well as the public frequently use the terms "mass communication" and "mass media", but the meaning of these terms is often ambiguous. While it is assumed that everyone knows what these terms mean, the few scholars who attempt to define these terms struggle to capture the essence of their meaning without including elements that are faulty, and this task is becoming even more difficult in the new media environment. We are left with the troubling question: What are the "mass" media? This review constructs an answer to this question in a four step process. The first step features a critical analysis of the literature to identify definitional elements used by scholars. These definitional elements are subjected to four screens that evaluate their utility in a second step. The third step adds elements missing from the literature so as to make the eventual definition more useful in the new media environment. Finally, the fourth step features the construction of a working definition of “mass” media.... weniger

Thesaurusschlagwörter
Kommunikationsforschung; Massenkommunikation; Begriff; Definition; neue Medien; Massenmedien

Klassifikation
Massenkommunikation
Allgemeines, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Methoden, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Kommunikationswissenschaften

Freie Schlagwörter
conceptualization; lineation theory; critical analysis

Sprache Dokument
Englisch

Publikationsjahr
2013

Seitenangabe
S. 1-30

Zeitschriftentitel
Review of Communication Research, 1 (2013)

DOI
https://doi.org/10.12840/issn.2255-4165_2013_01.01_001

Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Lizenz
Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Nicht kommerz., Keine Bearbeitung


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