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SAI INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
                                                 SESSION 2020 – 21
                                                       Class – VII
                                                          CIVICS
                                        CH- 6: UNDERSTANDING MEDIA
                                                   LESSON NOTES

               Sub-Topic 1: MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY, MEDIA AND MONEY



               MEDIA AND                Media :
               TECHNOLOGY                    It refers to all means of communication; everything
                                               ranging from a phone call to the evening news on TV can
                                               be called media.
                                             TV, Radio, and newspapers are forms of media.
                                             Since they reach millions of people across the world they
                                               are called mass media.
                                             The technology that mass media uses keeps changing.
                                             Newspapers, TV, and radio can reach millions of people
                                               because they use certain technologies.
                                        Print Media: -
                                             Means of communication in the form of printed
                                               publications.
                                             It is a medium that disseminates printed matter.
                                             The print media responsible for gathering and publishing
                                               news in the form of Newspapers and Magazines.
                                        Electronic Media: –
                                             Electronic media are media that use electronics or
                                               electromechanical audience to access the content.
                                             The medium that requires electricity or digital encoding of
                                               information.
                                             It basically refers to means of mass communication that
                                               electronic.
                                             They may include TV, Radio, Internet, Fax, CD-ROMs,
                                               DVD etc.

                                        Television images travel huge distances through satellites and
                                        cables which allows us to view news and entertainment channels
                                        from other parts of the world.
                                             Changing technology, or machines, and making
                                               technology more modern.
                                             It helps media to reach more people.
                                             It also improves the quality of sound and the images that
                                               we see.
                                             It also changes the ways in which we think about our
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