How to Use mass medium in a Sentence

mass medium

noun
  • Many of these questions were part of the debates during the rise of mass media.
    Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 18 June 2019
  • The technique has been around since the advent of radio as a mass medium.
    Stephen Metcalf, The New Yorker, 19 May 2018
  • These were the kinds of one-to-many, top-down mass media that Orwell’s Big Brother had used to stay in power.
    Fred Turner, Harper's magazine, 10 Jan. 2019
  • The problem is that the British past offers no clear guidance about what to do if a prime minister falls ill in an age of mass media.
    Luke Reader, The Conversation, 7 Apr. 2020
  • As the scholar Rebecca Knuth explained to Smithsonian.com last year, the path to that moment in 1933 in some ways starts with the printing press and the subsequent spread of mass media.
    Lily Rothman, Time, 18 May 2018
  • But the youngest actors have the haziest relationship with AIDS, informed by the mass media of their childhood.
    Joshua Barone, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2019
  • Painting was its day’s mass media in the 19th century, and no one had the awareness to question their canvases.
    Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Know, 29 Sep. 2019
  • WhatsApp has also relied on mass media to solve its fake news problem.
    Yomi Kazeem, Quartz Africa, 22 Oct. 2019
  • To me, this unintended example of serendipity in mass media seems like a small glimpse of what’s to come.
    Kylie Robison, Fortune, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Television emerged as a mass medium during the 1950s, just in time to help fuel early Cold War hysteria.
    Joel Mathis, The Week, 9 June 2022
  • In recent years, his wordplay has become more enigmatic and less overtly tied to mass media.
    Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
  • In the 20th century, the mass media began to tell those stories to a fascinated public.
    Nara B. Milanich, Time, 10 June 2019
  • The island's free-wheeling mass media show scenes of empty shelves and worried shoppers, giving viewers a sense of scarcity.
    Ralph Jennings, latimes.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • My development as a teenage fan was fueled by mass media and by other people.
    Nancy Baym, WIRED, 10 July 2018
  • At the turn of the millennium, audiobooks were closer to a cottage industry than a mass medium.
    Daniel A. Gross, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2022
  • What does that mean in today’s world of mass media and political division?
    Kyle Frischkorn, Smithsonian, 20 Sep. 2017
  • These books represent the beginnings of modern mass media.
    Rachel Adler, Slate Magazine, 4 Aug. 2017
  • For Brown, the Holzer refers to mass media and fine art, evoking both modern technology and ancient burial practices.
    Steven Litt, cleveland, 26 Apr. 2020
  • His upcoming show will use AI techniques and technology to combine mass media collages with five large-scale new works.
    Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Eventually, Roemer escalates the action into the distinctive New York realm of mass media and the whiplash ironies that follow a rush of celebrity.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Keene said the mass media, TV shows and social media can often dehumanize people.
    AZCentral.com, 16 July 2023
  • Before the era of mass media, mass literacy and cheap communication, knowledge of the world was foggy.
    The Economist, 24 May 2018
  • Organized by curator Timothy O. Benson, the show looks at how the war was presented through the lens of burgeoning mass media.
    Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2023
  • Parents, peers and mass media can all reinforce good or bad views of violence in relationships.
    Jayne O'Donnell, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2018
  • This mass media company is a spin-off of Tele-Communications.
    Fortune, 1 July 2019
  • The rise of television as a mass medium in the 1950s sparked the rise of media studies in general, led by Marshall McLuhan, a literary-theorist turned cultural guru.
    Jeet Heer, New Republic, 23 Sep. 2017
  • Globalizing our heroism The 20th century and its mass media brought more heroes.
    Rodrigo Cervantes, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Charisma is both amplified and diminished by mass media.
    Zach Schonfeld, Newsweek, 12 Jan. 2018
  • Rosenquist honed his skills working as a billboard painter around Times Square and took images from advertising and mass media to create works of surprising narrative depth.
    Tobias Grey, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2018
  • Film festivals and Hollywood movie studios alike have been racing to keep up with the trends in mass media, where cell phones, video games, and subscription streaming services are changing the ways consumers engage with screens and stories.
    TheWeek, 7 Feb. 2020

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