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this article provided great information, I feel it could have been more informative if you included mass media theorists.Kendrabrule (talk) 20:09, 28 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 8 September 2022 and 15 December 2022. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Wenyao123 (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Linxiao Pan.

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I followed the link associated with this statement "In the early 2000s, a classification called the "seven mass media" came into use," which is a very prominent point in the article, to this website, and am very confused. This paper does not read like a peer-reviewed paper; has only 13 citations on Google Scholar; says it was published in "International Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences Vol 1 (01) August 2013," but the search engine on the website for this journal finds no results for the paper; and the online archive for the journal (here) seems to indicate that volume one was published in 2015, i.e. two years after the date on the paper. In addition, the ISBN on the paper points to a somewhat different article, with different authors (here,) and a Google Scholar search for "the seven mass media" does not produce any relevant results. (The most promising one, here, a paper with 757 citations, is about something different.) I am not an expert, but the article seems to give undue prominence to an idea that is (a) not a consensus position in the field, and (b) has such a strange online presence that it may actually be original research, and not from a reliable source. I would be grateful if an experienced editor with expertise in the subject of mass media could take a look and decide if this section of the article should be deleted. At the very least, it seems the inline reference is not pointing to something with appropriate significance. Sorry for the ramble, and apologies if I have badly misunderstood something. Aisleway (talk) 23:39, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]