Media and modalities – News media

Abstract

News media highlight in a nearly paradigmatic way how our idea of any media depends on the ways they are produced and disseminated. News has been a crucial aspect of human life for as long as we have organized ourselves in societal structures. This chapter explores the role of mass media as technical media of display. So far, we have identified the intrinsic quality of novelty and how it is supported by the rapid distribution of mass media as technical media of display. The quality of news as stories of recent events also influences how audiences interact with the basic media types of news media in the various modalities. The chapter also explores these qualifying aspects of news and discusses how the way they are produced and used characterizes what news is. The news tells stories to provide information about an event.