Define culture, mass media, and mass communication and explain their interrelationships

Culture, according to our textbook, can be viewed broadly as the ways that people live and represent themselves. This can encompass fashion, sports, literature, architecture, education, religion, and science, as well as mass media. Culture is also always changing. Mass media is the cultural industries that produce and distribute songs, novels, TV shows, newspapers, movies, video games, Internet services, and other cultural products to large numbers of people. These cultural industries can be known also as channels of communication. Mass communication is the process designing cultural messages and stories and delivering them to large and diverse audiences through media channels as old and distinctive as the printed book and as new and converged as the Internet.

These three things are interconnected with each other in the way that they interact with each other and impact each other. Mass media and mass communication go hand in hand with each other. The mass media companies use mass communication in order to get their messages out to many different people as quickly and as efficiently as they can. This line of mass communication can then also lead to the development and possible changes in culture of the population that is being reached with this message that is going out. Different cultures from around the world can also now be seen by a lot more people due to the new lines of mass media and mass communication. So with this, we can see cultures potentially spread across the world at a rate never seen before.