Examining How Societies Communicate

Different ways of communicating with an audience

• medium

• media

Examples of media include:

• television

• newspapers

• books

• the Internet

Mass media is created to reach a large number of people.

• true

• false

The different ways of spreading information using the media are known as media outlets. Radio stations, TV channels, and blogs are all media outlets.

• true

• false

Newspapers, magazines, journals, and books are types of

• print media

• broadcast media

• the Internet

Broadcast media includes news reports, speeches, and other information presented to a large audience that’s spread over a large area.

• false

• true

The point of view of most media writing is that of the authorship, or the piece’s creators. It’s common for more than one person to be involved in creating media works.

• true

• false

Which term defines the person or people who create a piece of media writing?

• mass media

• authorship

• medium

• narrator

__________are pronouns used when the object of the verb is the same as the subject.

• reflexive pronouns

• intensive pronouns

An intensive pronouns is used to emphasize a sentence’s subject.

• true

• false