Global Media
Global media has a huge impact on the United States. As a country, we adapt and collect popular trends that are in other countries and bring them to the United States. Global media is the different forms of mass communication that reach all across the world. This can include T.V., radio, newspaper, and all kinds of social media platforms. TikTok is a great example of an app that is trending all over the world. Some of our most popular apps today like Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat were all created in the United States. Since being created they have grown their popularity worldwide and other countries have their own versions of these apps. On the other hand, Tik Tok was created in Beijing, China by a company called ByteDance. TikTok was originally called Musical.ly which was essentially the same app but since then has added a lot more features. Musical.ly was created by Alex Zhu and Luyu Yang in Shanghai, China in August 2014. Then the new owners took over changed the name