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| global village |
the world considered as a single community, made so by modern air travel, mass media, and the like. |
| masscult |
(informal) the artificial, trivialized, commercialized culture apparent in artifacts created for the masses and made popular by the mass media. |
| pop art |
a form of modern art that uses subjects from everyday life and the mass media, and adapts techniques of commercial art such as comic strips. |
| town crier |
a man hired by a town, before the advent of mass media, to proclaim the news or make public announcements in the streets. |
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