mass medium Meaning of "mass medium"

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Definition(s):

  • (n) (usually plural) transmissions that are disseminated widely to the public

Usage(s):

  1. In seven books Rowling proved that books can still be a true global mass medium, and that significant chunks of the known world can still embrace a single story.
  2. By selling 325 million books in 66 languages, she has almost single-handedly made the case that the novel can still be a global mass medium.
  3. From the thousands of interconnected threads of the Internet, he wove the World Wide Web and created a mass medium for the 21st century.
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