Hello all, and welcome to the first of our two episodes on news and social media! In today's episode, we're going to talk about the basics: concepts like mass media, news media, and social media as well as investigate our use of different news sources like newspapers, radio, television, and the internet/social media. Unsurprisingly, social media is more and more where we get our news... at least for younger generations. As you work through this episode, please think about how we get our news affects our understanding of what's going on--do people getting news from social media see the world differently from those who watch TV news? Or not?