mass media: Media
Its complicated history spans from Johannes Gutenberg to Mark Zuckerberg.
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Johannes Gutenberg invented one of the first printing presses using movable type.
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By 2019, Facebook's popularity had made Mark Zuckerberg one of the world's most prominent...
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Two-page spread of the Book of Ecclesiastes from Johannes Gutenberg's 42-line Bible,...
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Rare first printing of Martin Luther's Ninety-five Theses, 1517; in the...
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Press room of the New York Tribune in 1861.
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Volume 1, Issue 1, of The Atlantic Monthly as it first appeared in November...
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The Atlantic continues to print a robust magazine (shown here is the July 2025 edition)...
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Welles (pictured in 1939) intentionally made his 1938 radio broadcast adaptation...
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Franklin D. Roosevelt giving a radio broadcast (fireside chat), September 1934.
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A family watching television in Harlow, Essex, England, 1958.
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Ted Turner being interviewed at the Cable News Network (CNN) studio in Atlanta, June...
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The plate that went on the presses of The Washington Post on the night of...
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By the 21st century many newspapers were reaching most readers through the Internet.
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Netflix went from sending DVDs in the mail in the late 1990s to being a dominant...
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Tom Hanks pointing to a deepfake of himself created with artificial intelligence....
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Being able to recognize misinformation and disinformation and understand the reasons...
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