Essay about the role of old media in society
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Traditional media or old media include print media such as books, newspapers, magazines, newsletters, scholarly journals, pamphlets, fliers, broadsides, billboards, etc.
Other traditional media are the electronic media such as radio, television, movies, CDs and DVDs, digital still photography, video recordings, audio recordings, interactive video games, etc.
Traditional media differ from the New Media of the Internet, which include such diverse technologies as blogs, wikis, machinima, Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, MySpace, YouTube, podcasts, virtual worlds and web pages.
Since media are pervasive in our lives, you probably can think of more.
First, print media
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Let’s focus first on print media.
The term print media usually refers to the industry associated with the printing of news and information on paper or other hard copy base material and then the distribution of the printed matter.
Typically, the term points to books, newspapers and magazines, but can include also such media as newsletters, scholarly journals, pamphlets, brochures, fliers, broadsides, etc.