ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Mass communication

Mass communication is like a game of telephone. You have a person (the sender) who starts the game by giving a message to someone else (the receiver). The receiver then passes it along to another person (the receiver's receiver). This process continues until the message reaches a lot of people. The more people it reaches, the more people hear the message and the bigger the impact it has. Mass communication is the process of passing a message from one person to a lot of people at once, using tools like television, radio, newspapers, the internet, and any other technology. This way, a lot of people can hear the same message at the same time and it can spread like wildfire.