Thinking Activity on Mass Media & Communication

                           What is communication ?

"Communication is transfer of information from one person to another, whether or not it elicits confidence. But the information transferred must be understandable to the receiver" 
                                                                                           - G.G. Brown

Importance of communication in daily life :-

we all are social animals. we all are connected with each other with help of language. We sharing our ideas, thoughts, information & knowledge. So, in our life communication place a very important role. Communication helps us to share our ideas thoughts information & knowledge.

There are 4 types of communication :-

1) Verbal communication
2) Non verbal communication
3) Written communication
4) Visual communication

                    How communication shaped you :-

we all know that communication means sharing our thoughts ideas information & knowledge but you need language for communication. In 21st century language is important for communication & how people portrait you based on communication(language).

Communication in Monolingual :-

What is monolingual ?

                           "A person speak or write only one language"

if you can know only one language & you use only one language for daily communication than people only listen your ideas & thoughts they always want some "Mix Masala" & you can not reach 

Communication in multilingual :-

What is multilingual ?

- Using for able to speak several or many languages with facility.

- Spoken or written in several or many languages.

If you are multilingual person then you can communicate with other people with many languages. So, you are Eye catcher person (a person or thing that attracts the attention). If you using more languages in your daily communication than people always focus on your communication.

What is mass media communication ?

 “The process whereby media organizations produce and transmit messages to large public and the process by which those messages are sought, used, understood, and influenced by audience” 
              - Litteljohn & Foss

Types of mass communication :-

- advertising

- journalism
- public relations
- social media
- audio media
- convergence
- film & television
- web series
- photography

In contemporary time social media, film & television, web series used for mass communication & also use newspapers & magazines.

Films & web series :-

We all know the condition of women of small Villages. If you show the condition of women with help of newspaper then you reach only small group of people because nowadays people reads only headlines in newspaper but if you take help of film to show the condition of women can you share your thoughts with larger group of people.

For example :-

                                                              Film "Hellaro"

Hellaro won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film at the 66th National Film Awards.It has been officially selected as the opening film at Indian Panorama, at 50th International Film Festival of India (IFFI), Goa, to be held from 20 November to 28. It is also nominated for the best debut feature film of a director at the film festival.

- story of small village women
- Patriarchal society
- condition of women
- mentality of people
- struggle of women with men

In this we see all these points. If you take help of film to share your thoughts then you reach large group of people. so, for me mass communication is better medium to share your Ideas, thoughts, information & knowledge.