Mass Media
- Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film in 2009: ranked 19 out of 49 countries.
- Books published in 2007: ranked 9 out of 92 countries.
- Cell phone usage in 2010: ranked 35 out of 219 countries.
- E-readiness in 2009: ranked 16 out of 70 countries.
- Internet users in 2009: ranked 24 out of 216 countries.
- Broadband in 2007: ranked 17 out of 46 countries.
- Hosts in 2010: ranked 15 out of 231 countries.
- Telephone lines in use in 2010: ranked 17 out of 229 countries.
- Television broadcast stations in 2007: ranked 34 out of 228 countries.
| Index | Organization | Year | Rank | Out of | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Digital Opportunity Index | UN International Telecommunication Union | 2007 | 7 | 25 | |
| Networked Readiness Index | WEF Global Information Technology Report | 2011 | 6 | 138 |
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Famous quotes containing the words mass media, mass and/or media:
“Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions.”
—C. Wright Mills (1916–62)
“Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
“The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.”
—Michel de Certeau (1925–1986)