During the lecture on recorded music we talked about how the internet has really hurt to record industry. I found this really interesting because I know of so many artists that were not discovered by a record label, but by the internet. You don't have to be signed by a company to upload your music to Youtube and this has caused a lot of artists to post their music online instead of going to a record label. For example Justin Bieber was discovered on Youtube bur then was later signed to a record label.
Before the internet, the only way to get your music heard was to go through record companies, but now that people are working around that, the record industry is beginning to fail. This is just one example of how the internet is hurting the business of mass communication. There are online newspapers, online books, and online television like Hulu of Netflix.
Overall, I was really able to make a connection to real life because I like the music of many artists who were made famous on the internet. This lecture really helped me understand how much the internet is affecting our everyday forms of mass communication.
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