Media formats, features, and trends differ around the world due to differences in technologies used for communication. Printing presses allowed for newspapers while transmission equipment enabled television programming and computer networks facilitated the internet. Understanding the technologies that different media rely on is important for comprehending how various media work and the types of information they can communicate.

1. Describe how media formats, features, and trends differ around the world (in your own words)
Solution
we have explored the industries and organizations that produce our mass media, the content of
the media images that circulate widely, and the meaning of these media images for both
audiences and the broader political system. In this chapter,
we pay closer attention to the specific communication medium on which the various media
industries rely. Because we cannot have newspapers without printing presses, televi- sion
programming without equipment to transmit and receive visual images, or an Internet without the
computer networks on which data travel, we need to examine media tech- nologies themselves if
we are to understand how media work. What kinds of information do the different forms of
media communicate? What makes