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Your audience with the public

Stephen Waddington

This is when telecom operators such as BT started to offer broadband to consumer users, and wireless networks appeared in public spaces. These include shareholders, media, staff, suppliers, customers, and the local community. The social web is often described as the largest market research exercise that no one ever commissioned.

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The Essential Guide to Mass Communication: History, Methods, Ethics, and the Future

Masters in Communications

Today, we use many information sources to see what is going on around us, locally, nationally, and globally, with more emerging all the time. Also includes mobile gaming, social media, and the web. That year, Italian electrical engineer Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi invented the "wireless telegraph" (16).

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