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Digital media

In mass communication, digital media is any communication media that operates in conjunction with various encoded machine-readable data formats. Digital content can be created, viewed, distributed, modified, listened to, and preserved on a digital electronic device, including digital data storage media (in contrast to analog electronic media) and digital broadcasting. Digital is defined as any data represented by a series of digits, and media refers to methods of broadcasting or communicating this information. Together, digital media refers to mediums of digitized information broadcast through a screen or a speaker. This also includes text, audio, video, and graphics that are transmitted over the internet for consumption on digital devices. Digital media platforms, such as YouTube, Kick, and Twitch, accounted for viewership rates of 27.9 billion hours in 2020. This trend accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic due to quarantine measures. A contributing factor to its part in what is commonly referred to as the digital revolution can be attributed to the use of interconnectivity.

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• ▸Assamese language
• ▸Cotton Mather
• ▸History of Mexican Americans in Houston

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