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Which of the following is also termed mediated communication?

AIntrapersonal communication
BInterpersonal communication
CGroup communication
DMass communication ✓ Correct
Correct answer: (D) Mass communication
Explanation

Mass communication is also termed mediated communication because messages reach a large, scattered audience through a technological medium.

Newspapers, radio, television and the internet stand between the source and the receivers, defining the mediated character.

Silent self-talk within one mind is intrapersonal communication, which needs no intervening medium at all.

Direct exchange between two people is interpersonal communication, ordinarily face to face rather than device carried.

A small gathering interacting together is group communication, still largely unmediated and immediate.

The presence of an interposed channel and a mass audience is what marks communication as mediated.

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