PRESS & MEDIA

A detail knowledge about  what is media and it courses Media is the communication outlets or tools used to store and deliver information or data.The term refers to components of the mass media communications industry such as print media publishing the news media photography cinema broadcasting (radio and television) and advertising.The development of early writing and paper enabled longer-distance communication systems such as mail including in the Persian Empire and Roman Empire which can be interpreted as early forms of media.[4] Writers such as Howard Rheingold have framed early forms of human communication as early forms of media such as the Lascaux cave paintings and early writing.Another framing of the history of media starts with the Chauvet Cave paintings and continues with other ways to carry human communication beyond the short range of voice: smoke signals trail markers. The Term media in its modern application relating to communication channels was first used by Canadian communications theorist Marshall McLuhan who stated in Counterblast (1954): The media are not toys; they should not be in the hands of Mother Goose and Peter Pan executives. They can be entrusted only to new artists because they are art forms. By the mid-1960s the term had spread to general use in North America and the United Kingdom. The phrase mass media was according to H.L. Mencken used as early as 1923 in the United States.written by mr vivek kumar pandey