What is mass communications

Mass communications is the term used to describe the academic study of the varies means by which individuals and entities relay information through mass media to large segments of the population at the same time. The history of communication is wide and varied. Around 2900 bc Sumerians developed cuneiform writing. This is what started our most popular topic communication and technology. Writing letters sending emails making phone calls and driving from place to place. these are just some types of communications easy to access. With the printing press being invented in 1455 the fist daily newspaper was sent out in 1650. In 1876 the electric telephone was patented and in 1936 we have the first freely programmable computer was invented. life has become so advanced and portable.