Sometimes it's pretty interesting to think of how people might do something all the time, and it's really simple and takes barely any effort, but it's still a main element of journalism. What I'm referring to is communication. Billions of people talk to each other on a day to day basis, and though it's incredibly simple to us, it was quite a mind bender that words are actually meaningless, but us humans just grouped syllable sets together and related those to objects. At least I felt pretty mind bended, I can't speak for anyone else. Anyway, it was pretty interesting that if one speaker was talking to the whole world of 8 billion people, it was still group communication instead of mass, and if a youtube video that could be viewed all over the world at anytime, even if it has like 1 view, is mass communication. That's one of the great things about YouTube, you have the possibility to reach anyone in the whole world, and if your video has a deep message, you could potentially influence the emotions of someone you don't even know that lives thousands of miles away from you. It was crazy to think that even if someone comments on a video the second it's uploaded, it still isn't immediate feedback. Individual and group communication is the only times where you can see responses in like a millisecond.
I know I'm somewhat late discussing this particular lecture, but you know what they say: Better late than never, right?
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