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This was also the case in the subsequent transition, between the Agrarian Age and the Industrial Age, when the first actual newspapers, representatives of the new style media appeared. With the development of the industrial revolutions, not only did people live closer together, in growing cities, but they were also becoming more concerned with the society they lived in and to become more interested in elements about their society.
Mass media in industrial societies began to reflect things of interest for the workers, while in agrarian societies, like the Southern states of the U.S., the media and newspapers still covered basic information about growing crops, for example. In industrial societies, mass media developed as a growing need for the individuals in those societies to become informed and to respond to the issues going on in the world.
In my opinion, at this point mass media turns from being a material of information to being a reflective material as well. In other words, moving on from the type of agrarian almanacs in circulation to that point, we have a mass media which reflects on current events.
Finally, we arrive to the digital world and to the transitions that made this world possible. The necessities of today's word again encouraged the characteristics of the media itself. First of all, communication...
This is why the development of such means of communication as the Internet saw the apparition of new means of mass media, such as online blogs.
On the other hand, the society today relies infinitely more on information for its day-to-day operations. Indeed, if we look at the way things changed from the Agrarian Age, people still leave far apart, as they did then, however, they are now more closely bound than when they were leaving much close together in the cities, during the Industrial Age.
Basically, it is obvious that nowadays the role of the mass media has greatly increased, not only in its reflective role, but also as a trend setter, as a mean of propagating ideas and delivering them to individuals.
As we can see, mass media has gradually developed in time with close ties to the actual societies it was developing from. Reasons for this were that mass media tended to generally reflect the characteristics of the respective societies, as well as the fact that the means of communications have also developed to reflect more and more the actual societies they were part of. Finally, in its close tie with information and the need to propagate it, mass media kept close bounds with the entities that were producing the information, the individuals of each society.
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