So I have just read the week one reading and found it slightly confusing first time around, so its time to get the old pan and paper out and make some notes! Haha what a way to spend your Friday afternoon =p
After reading the extract it's still not easy to know what to write, but I'll give it ago.
The first thing I picked up on and noted was the significance radio had in the 20th century. Nowadays we have all new types of media forms, the internet, televsion, mobile phones etc, and radio isn't what I consider personally to be the most significant. Obviously, other forms weren't avaialble in those days, and reading Goebbels article kind of opened my eyes to the importance it brang when it first started. Goebbel talks about how the radio was used to "bring a nation together" (much like facebook and email these days) and how the radio is broadcast to a mass audience, which greaters its responsibility of the future of a nation. To me, what i got from this is that the power radio possessed in its day was similar to what social networking at the internet has today. For example, it is mentioned how radio was responsible for a number of things, including the German Revolution, which would have not been possible without the help of radio transmissions.
Goebbel also spoke about Politics quite alot. Politics is something I don't know much about, so I'm not going to try and be clever and write loads about it!! But its clear in the writitng, that although radio was initially used to distract the masses from national difficulties and social life, it underlied a very politically ifnused...thing...message. I don't know really, I think I'll come back and write some more later! Good luck with your first study blog everyone! x
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hi rachael!
ReplyDeleteyeah i agree with you about radio being then what social networking is now. To Goebells it seemed to be the only way to bring people together and get a message across, regardless of what gender/class they were. I also noticed that he mentioned that to have good radio, it must be informative: 'a radio that does not deal with the problems of the day does not deserve to influence the broad masses'. I feel like he thought politcal views were important and people needed to understand them! xx
Hi Rachael,
ReplyDeleteGenerally, if there's a reading you don't understand, ask colleagues for clarification. But post on something else -say the lecture (no-one seems to have read it -a big mistake) or the other questions you're prompted to consider.
I like your comparison of Facebook to radio, in terms of 'bringing people together' of course that was around the only set in the (middle-class) house, whereas F'bk tends to do it in cyberspace prior to meeting IRL outside homes, and the immediate liaison is managed by sms and mobile chat? But that sense of shared experience that listening to the same programme can give you is arguably a good precursor to the 'togetherness' of a Facebook group with shared experience both on & off-line?