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What many people do not realise is that the word media is in fact plural and refers to a range of mediums which are essentially tools used for communication, be it through direct conversation (for example telephones) or for transmitting information in the form of news and sport (the likes of television and radio). It is a form that has had somewhat of a revolution over the last hundred years with television and film gaining in popularity across the 1900s before the century closed just as the internet started to take over the world.
In the modern day it is hard to imagine that only around one hundred years ago the first two way radio broadcast took place across the Atlantic a feat which is now carried out regularly and promptly. Before that Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, bringing about new ways of speaking to one another. Today the phone is used for a variety of other purposes, including email and texting (bringing with it new forms of language in the form of emoticons).
The world of electronic media is forever changing and developing, with new breakthroughs changing how we view television and film (the latter with the growing popularity of 3D cinema). It is likely that the next century will also be a good one for mass media.