Chapter 1 Questions

1. . In a newspaper, the senders are the authors of the articles and the receivers are the readers of the newspapers. The senders transmit their messages through a channel which sometimes could get interrupted by noise. The main form of noise for newspapers would most likely be Symantec noise because newspaper journalists tend to use a wider range of vocabulary which many average readers cannot comprehend. In a newspaper article, the sender would be the authors of the articles and the receiver would be the subscriber or purchaser of the magazine. Feedback for a newspaper could be critics reading their articles and then evaluating the article. The senders transmit their message through a channel which could get interrupted by internal noise. The reader of the magazine could be thinking about other things as they read the magazine and as a result, they could miss the message of the article. Feedback for magazine articles could be readers writing to the magazine and telling them what they thought about the article. In a radio program, the sender is the host of the radio show and the receiver is the listener of the program. The sender transmits the message through either an AM or FM channel which could most frequently be interrupted by mechanical or environmental noise. Feedback to the sender from the receiver would be people calling in and telling the host of the radio program what they thought about the program. In a television program, the sender would be the producer of the show and the receiver would be the viewers of the show. Television producers send their message through channels on the television which could get interrupted by all four forms of noise. Viewers can send feedback to the television programs by the number of viewers who watch their show each week.

2.The most entertaining form of mass media is the internet. People spend hours upon hours online, wasting their day away on Facebook, Myspace, or Youtube. It is their main source of entertainment. You can listen to music, talk to friends, look at pictures of your friends, or watch entire videos.
The most informative form of mass media is the internet. It is always at hand and easily accessible. It is an endless world of informing and you can find whatever information you need from various places, instead of from one single source. The most persuasive form of mass media is the television. It is the most persuasive due to the fact that you can actually see the faces that are talking to you. You can see the emotion in their faces and feel whatever they’re feeling just by seeing them. It is almost as though they are talking directly to you. When you see someone passionately talking about a topic, the viewer tends to be swayed in the direction of the speaker