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Mass media and surveillance: definition and types Mass media: What is mass media? Mass media can be defined as ways to deliver information, thoughts, opinions, and daily events a wide audience either within the country or around the globe. They are powerful agents in terms of Communicating about every aspect of life such as politics, health, sports, and laws. It is intended to communicate and influence a huge number of people and they have the technological ability to distribute the information to millions of people in short a short time. Some of the people rely on mass media for political, cultural and entertainment purposes, making it a very powerful unity. Mass media plays a fundamental role in educating the general people about the happenings in the modern world. It is the simplest and publicly used means of communication used for ages. What types of mass media exist? There are three main types of social media: Broadcast: such as:  Television is a powerful method to reach mass audiences it reaches people despite differences in terms of cultural, age and ideologies. In addition, television offers sight and sound, and it makes moving and graphic images of people, happenings and products.  Radio also reaches mass and diverse audiences. it costs are less than for TV, radio is able to convey several messages, events, and concepts in certain vocal detail. Hence, radio is seldom regarded to be more effective.

Print: such as:

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Newspapers are read daily in 70 percent of the U.S. houses. Its main focus is usually the daily happenings whether its politics, sports, or social events. Newspapers rarely last more than one or two days in a regular household. Magazines they may be kept for weeks or months, and are often read over and over again, and moved on to others. Magazine reading also tends to occur at a less speedy pace than newspaper reading. They diver in terms of content.

Internet: especially social media:

Social media: The social media platforms are unbelievably popular, and it reaches a very huge sum of people in way or the other. Name of the platform Facebook YouTube WhatsApp Facebook Messenger WeChat QQ Instagram QZone Tumblr Twitter

Number of users 2, 047, 000,000 1, 500, 000,000 1, 200, 000,000 1, 200, 000,000 938, 000,000 861, 000,000 700, 000,000 638, 000,000 357, 000,000 328, 000,000

Surveillance: Surveillance is the monitoring of operations, activities, or additional changing data with the intent of influencing, controlling, conducting or guarding people. This can involve observation from a distance by means of technological devices or the capturing of electronically forwarded information, such as Internet transactions or calls. The mass media Surveillance is used by governments for intelligence collection, stopping of crimes, the security of a process, body, group or object, or the examination of a crime. It is also used by wicked organizations to prepare and perform violations and atrocities, such as online theft, by spying on personal information. It can also be used by the government to track its citizens and locating them, or spying on their publications online. Surveillance is often regarded as an invasion of privacy, and as such is often attacked by several civil freedoms groups and activists...