What is the difference between mass communication and mass media?

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Asked by Rohit Shah
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4 years ago
Mass communication is the study of how people and entities relay information through mass media to large segments of the population at the same time. In other words, mass communication refers to the imparting and exchanging of information on a large scale to a wide range of people. It is usually und

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Lalit Bhandari
9 years ago
Hi Rohit, Simplest defintion: Mass Media is the collection of the means that big media outlets use to distribute their media content, so basically the different types of mass media; e.g. television broadcasting, print newspaper, radio broadcasting, and so on. Mass communication, on the other hand,

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