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'''Media''' can be described as mass communication. One entity wants to communicate one or more messages to an audience and does this through media. Media can be found in many different forms: [[newspaper]]s, [[radio]], [[TV]], [[Internet]] and [[print media]] are some of them.
The term '''Media''' comes from a the plural of the Latin noun "medium," meaning 'in the midst' or 'an intervening space'. It has come into use in English to mean the material through or within which verbal or other means of communication are embodied (such as painting, wax cylinders, or DVD's) or transmitted (radio, television, or the [[Internet]]). In its broadest sense, it describes all forms of mass communication.  




== History ==
== History ==
To define the first media expressions is a difficult task. Man has allways tried to communicate with its surroundings. In the [[stone age]] humans carved their stories in stone. These stories are seen by people today, and has achieved the goal of communicating its message to a vast audience. Through the ages the method of communicating through written signs, has developed to letters. And the methods of writing and distributing has been refined.
The first appearance of the media in the modern world was the introduction of the press, and the following news papers.
Although newspapers are claimed to have existed since 59 B.C., the possibility to distribute large quantities of newspapers came with the introduction of the press. The printing press was invented by [[Johann Gutenberg]] in 1447. This started an expansive growth of [[newsletters]], a one page newspaper. Although these had few of the things we characterize as good journalism today, they made the first steps of media as we know it today.

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The term Media comes from a the plural of the Latin noun "medium," meaning 'in the midst' or 'an intervening space'. It has come into use in English to mean the material through or within which verbal or other means of communication are embodied (such as painting, wax cylinders, or DVD's) or transmitted (radio, television, or the Internet). In its broadest sense, it describes all forms of mass communication.


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