Understanding Mass Communication

• As a system by which a group of people simultaneously transmit information to a large audience
• As a process of creating shared meaning between mass media and their audiences
• As a symbolic process whereby reality is produced, maintained, repaired, and transformed
• As a purposeful effort to establish a relationship between a source and a receiver (correct)

• Mass communication is the process of creating shared meaning between the mass media and their audiences (correct)
• Mass communication involves the transmission of information to a large audience scattered in space and time
• Communication focuses on creating shared meaning while mass communication does not
• Communication is a development that involves sharing information between a sender and a receiver

• As a symbolic process whereby reality is produced, maintained, repaired, and transformed (correct)
• As a process of creating shared meaning between mass media and their audiences
• As a purposeful effort to establish a relationship between a source and a receiver
• As the technically mediated transmission and publication of information to a large audience

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