The differences between Television and Internet

Lecturer: Steve

Zhou Zhi
Words account: 586

Television and Internet, both of them as mass media, there are many differences. On Oct 2 1925, the first Television is invented by a Scottish people John Logie Baird. “Television(TV) is a widely used telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that are either monochromatic ("black and white") or color, usually accompanied by sound.”(Television, WIKIPEDIA, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tv, accessed 30 October 2010) Nowadays, TV as a source of news and entertainment of mass medium has played an absolutely necessary part of people’s daily life. However, comparing with TV, the speed of development and spread of Internet is incredible. “Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide.”(Internet, WIKIPEDIA, http://en.wikipe...

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