Each category is defined with traditional conventions, but categories may overlap. Hardware used to create and communicate with media, e.g., radio, computers, telephones, satellites, printing presses, pencils, etc. Media conventions, formats, symbols and narrative structures which cue the audience to meaning. The symbolic language of electronic media work much the same way as grammar works in print media. The relationship between actual places, people, events and ideas and media content.
Stereotypes are a common form of media representation.
Mass Media . Any form of communication produced by a few for consumption by many people. Mass media are channels of communication through which messages flow. As the messages go through the channels, they are distorted. When people receive media messages they have no opportunity for immediate feedback with the producers of the messages.