The mass media were almost entirely "word-centric" for hundreds of years until

A) libraries began using the Dewey Decimal System to categorize books.
B) it became technologically possible to duplicate and distribute images.
C) visual images became accepted as a form of communication as well as art.
D) motion pictures were invented and accepted as a mass medium.


Answer: B

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