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Electronic Media

Idealogic’s Glossary

Electronic media is about the gadgets for preserving, conveying, and manipulating data in the form of binary code. The advent of computers facilitated the digitization of conventional information in that they can be transformed into electrical signals that can be preserved, passed and reproduced via magnetic or optical media.

Electronic mass media can be divided into several groups:

Television Hardware: This is such items as television sets, cameras, microphones, and broadcast transmitters.

Radio Hardware: This group includes radio transmitters as well as receivers along with antennas and systems connected with broadcasting.

Internet Hardware: This category ranges from computer systems, servers, routers, modems and any other networking gear.

Computer Storage Media: Ever present in the workplaces of almost all professions, they can be classified into three:

Magnetic Storage: Such some of them as floppy disks, external hard drives, internal hard drives can be distinguished.

Optical Storage: It involves CDs, CD-RWs, DVDs, and other forms of the optical discs.

Flash Drives: USB flash drives and compact storage media as memory cards.

This classification shows how many-spectrum electronic media technologies include several technologies.