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Response to KC's "The Process of Mass Media"

During the class discussion on mass media, the things that crossed my mind and left me thinking were ironically the same things that absorbed KC's attention. She said that while we were talking about the steps to produce mass media, she thought of all the stimuli that have never been followed through on, and how many ideas have come to her that she will never fulfill. This thought, of all the ideas that come to me and I know I will never fulfill or at least wont for a long time, crosses my brain often. There are so many projects I want to do and things I want to learn but there seems to be so little time. 
KC also mentioned when Mr. Miller said that we are constantly receiving radio waves and internet signals. For me, this statement made mass communication through technology feel suddenly much more real and prominent. As KC said, "I did not realize that waves from the radio flow through time and space in that manner. Of course then I have to realize, to be mass media, they have to flow through time and space." Similarly, when Mr. Miller said mass communication travels through time and space, I only thought of how something is recorded, not the actual transportation of the recording. I now understand just how forms of mass communication can travel through time and space. 


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