Respond to any one of the following three options. Draw on everything you have learned this semester (text book, in-class discussion, group presentations, independent research).
1.) Would the overall trend of mass media over the past century indicate a greater variety of voices being heard, or less variety? Describe what you see as the general trend, and give specific examples to support your conclusion. In your response, please explore multiple forms of media.
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2.) What do you consider the two most important problems facing media and society today? What solutions would you propose? Give both specific and general ideas. In your response, please explore more than one type of media. (For instance, do not focus only on issues related to the newspaper industry. Instead explore two distinct problems that, though possibly inter-related, effect different forms of media, i.e. decline of newspapers and the upheaval of the music industry.)
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3.) Older media forms have a history of adapting and surviving when a new mass media technology emerges, such as radio to television. In what ways are pre-digital forms of mass media adapting to the Internet? Is this adaptation fundamentally the same as what has happened in the past, or is it significantly different? Be sure to give examples from at least two different forms of mass media.