Week One.
Goebbel's speech on the radio is nothing short of interesting. Spoken in 1933, one considers that in 2033, will students of this very unit consider us ranting about the greatness of computers or ipods as drastically naive and out of date.
Goebell talks about radio as life-changing, for the indivdual, society and politics, and he continues to use the words "future" and "modern". This, to a nineteen year old in 2009, as bizarre. We see the radio as something that a car has if its old, or to maybe listen to while eating sunday dinner (the only time in my household that the television is not on).
A point I found really interesting was Goebbel talking about the radio being a distraction fom problems in society. I believe this is still true today, except that the form of distracting entertinment is now television, computers, mp3 players and so on. Goebell believes that the press was the "old" media and radio as the "new", however, the digital media of today (computers, mp3s, digital tv) is the "new" media of the 21st century. Who knows what the future may hold in store for "new" media.
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Exactly. Although it sounds so obvious we perhaps shouldn't even bother to point out, I think the main point to consider, as you have done, is the time of Goebbels writing in relation to the media of the time. If we translate Goebbels views about radio to the new media of today they don't sound quite so 'bizzare' (as you put). I summed this up in my post on this with;
ReplyDelete'Perhaps if writing today Goebbels might consider renaming his speech ‘The MEDIA as the Eight Great Power’, and his words become something we could comprehend quite easily.'
I'm sure all of our upcoming blogs talking about 'new media' will be equally as outdated even sooner than Goebbel's were. I can't keep up....will it ever stop?!
'will be equally outdated even sooner than Goebbel's'....this doesn;t make sense :p
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:)