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Beginning of mass media
The growth of the first commercial printing industry during the early 18th century, which sprang up around London's Grub Street, is most often cited as a beginning for mass media. -
Introduction of technologies
A string of communication technologies were introduced during the 19th century, all of which accelerated the development of the mass media: the invention of the steam-powered printing press, coupled with increasing literacy rates, gave rise to mass circulation of newspapers and magazines, as well as to the mass production of books, including paperbacks. -
Photography
Photography was invented in the 1820s, and methods for reproducing photographs in the print media were improved throughout the century, making such media ever more attractive to consumers. In addition, the development of still photography led to the invention of the motion picture, an entirely new means of communication that showed great potential for mass-media application. -
Selling
All three types of mass-produced print products were commonly available for sale in Europe and North America by the 1860s. -
Recordings
Sales of recordings reached mass proportions during the 1920s as commercial radio was used to popularize musical genres, create hit songs, and make stars of artists.
The first U.S. commercial radio station went on the air in 1920, and radio networks, linking stations in various parts of the country to carry a single program simultaneously, were first established in 1927. -
Change of mass media
By the turn of the 20th century, other types of media were gaining public attention on this scale. Silent movies became increasingly popular during the early 20th century. Although entertainments, such as dramatic narratives, dominated the silent screen, informational genres of cinema, such as the newsreel and the documentary film, were also born at this stage of development. -
A new mass media
By the middle of the 20th century, newspapers, magazines, movies, phonograph records, and radio programs were conveniently available to most of the American population.
During the 1950s, broadcast television emerged as the nexus of the mass media. Containing news, drama, cinema, music, and at least some content from all other mass media in a single, convenient home appliance, television's overwhelming functionality was soon dictating
supplementary roles to other components of the mass media. -
Growth in online services
The 1990s were marked by an explosive growth in online services for people who use computers, as well public access to the Internet. At first it was hoped by critics that the Internet might offer an alternative to mass-media influence over public taste and public opinion with such interpersonal applications as e-mail, newsgroups, bulletin boards, and chat rooms. That was not the case. -
Online world
By the turn of the 21st century, the familiar influence of mass-media reasserted itself heavily in the online world.
Mass-media companies have become the dominant deliverers of content, extending their familiar brand names to this newest source for information and entertainment. Studies show that the number of people worldwide who get their news via some internet form continues to grow each year. -
Nowadays
The mass media is mainly on social media platforms nowadays and technology and electronics took over most other things.