mass medium
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmassandmedium
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mass
adjective[before noun]
uk/mæs/us/mæs/
having an effect on or involving a large number of people or forming a ...
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medium
noun[C]
uk/ˈmiː.di.əm/us/ˈmiː.di.əm/
a method or way of ...
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(Definition ofmassandmediumfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofmass medium
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The consequences of television's extraordinary reach as amassmediumfor classical music have been different.
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An important precondition of the spread of television during the 1950s was a price policy which made its breakthrough as amassmediumpossible.
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The roles of video, both as amassmediumand as personal camcorder, are discussed and analysed in communicative terms.
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Radio is the onlymassmediumthat is accessible to them.
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This applied most directly to the cinema, the decline of which corresponded with the rise of television to the status ofmassmedium.
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They are politically sharp, but more than this have a real alternative vision for amassmediumabout to break into a new stride technically and aesthetically.
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Themassmediumwas radio.
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People have got used to themassmediumof television.
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The theatre puts on a play to a limited public, for it is not amassmedium.
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Newspapers are the most editorially influentialmassmedium, and television is people's most trusted source of information.
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I would expect that most people to-day would believe that television is the outstandingmassmediumof communication.
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Amassmediumshort of money cannot give the viewer the quality of programme he would wish to have.
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This is the onemassmediumin which we are equal with the party opposite.
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Up to date it has sold itself exclusively as amassmedium.
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Here is an area where the masses may be reached through the medium of broadcasting, for broadcasting is amassmedium.
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Here we have the greatestmassmediumthat the world has yet seen with its positive sides outweighing its negative sides, but its negative sides are important.
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Video is the onlymassmediumdealing with moving pictures which is not yet subject to some form of regulation in the public interest.
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The radio, which is a minority channel, carries noisy extracts of our debates, but television, the only genuinemassmedium, carries only sound radio with still pictures.
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In the 1970s and 1980s, television become the preeminentmassmedium.
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