Mass media facts for kids

Newspapers are an example of mass media

Mass media are media like radio, television, internet or other things that reach many people. Television is most used. We can see and hear news from around the world. Radio also brings music and news. Books supply older and more detailed material. The internet is also important. We can search for all the news and information. Websites like Wikipedia and about.com give information about many things. Libraries are also important. In libraries we can read books and listen to music.

The term was coined in the 1920s with the advent of nationwide radio networks, mass-circulation newspapers and magazines, although mass media (like books and manuscripts) were present centuries before the term became common.

Related pages

• Media studies
• Associated Press

Images for kids

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  Copy of a newspaper (El Universo), an example of mass media.

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  Egyptian movie star Salah Zulfikar on the cover of Al-Kawakeb magazine, March 1961, an example of mass media.

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  A family listening to a crystal radio in the 1920s

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  Shopping carts for children fitted with gaming computers

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  Egyptian film star Salah Zulfikar on the cover of Al-Kawakeb magazine, March 1961

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  Political advertisements on a billboard in the Netherlands in 2019

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  Early wooden printing press, depicted in 1520

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  Early minstrel shows lampooned the assumed stupidity of black people. Detail from cover of The Celebrated Negro Melodies, as Sung by the Virginia Minstrels, 1843

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  American political cartoon titled The Usual Irish Way of Doing Things, depicting a drunken Irishman lighting a powder keg and swinging a bottle. Published in Harper's Weekly, 1871

See also

In Spanish: Medio de comunicación de masas para niños