It has been days since I started thinking what to write to my entry about Information Revolution. If not for my mom and her best friend’s story I wouldn’t have made an entry that’s personal and would have resorted in discussing what our professor had lectured.
Here it goes.
Last night, right after my mom entered our home and even before she said her usual line, “I’m home”, she immediately asked me to open her e-mail. Well, I didn’t ask her why or what’s the urgency because this had become a routine since last year. What’s the reason? Tita Noella, her best friend, texted her and said that she had already sent the pictures of her new home. FYI. My mom is a frustrated interior designer. She loves watching the Lifestyle channel. My mom helped Tita Noella in designing her home-through internet. My mom sends Tita Noella the colours that matched a specific room. Tita Noella, on her side takes pictures of the furniture that she have. All these were done through e-mail.
Some to think of it, I remember how they contact each other 5 yrs ago. My mom isn’t a techie person and she dislikes using the computer. She studied using it for the sake of her work. My mom and Tita Noella used to write each other through snail-mail. I remember the tons of albums that she has which contain not our pictures but of Tita Noella. But those were the days—my mom now opens her e-mail regularly instead of opening mail envelopes. She also has cd’s and usb’s instead of tons of albums.
Recently, my mom saw me chatting with a friend who migrated to Canada through Yahoo Messenger. She also saw my friend through the web cam and she thought that maybe she and Tita Noella can do that as well. She asked me to teach her how to use the YM, so that she can recommend it to Tita Noella and they could do it. LOL.
I thought that through the years, there has been definitely an Information Revolution—the spread of new media themselves, and this I have seen with the story of my mom. The new tools of information, specifically the e-mail/YM, help bridge people closer easier and more conveniently.
“It and the revolutions that followed would shape humankind more than any wars or any kings ever did or would.”(Irving Fang)
I SECOND THE MOTION!
Friday, August 3, 2007
ALIENS ON THE RADIO
July 31, 2007, 10:00pm. Now in the mood to study and do school stuffs. Well, you might say that’s probably late, the thing is I am a night person. I am more productive when everything is silent and I have watched all the shows I want to watch. I crept to my brother’s room and took the laptop from his desk and started working. I went to the eleap site and logged in. Started listening to the mp3 file of the War of the Worlds, soon got bored and finally decided to just download the file. I then started writing the draft for the entry for information revolution. I slept at around one in the morn.
Aug. 1, 2007, 7:30am. I woke up early to continue listening to the 1938 broadcast of HG Wells' War of the Worlds by the Mercury Theater. Soon, I got into it. I was absorbed. I was fascinated and thought it was rubbish. I personally don’t believe in UFO’s, aliens nor Martians or the like. I was even irritated to the people of that time for their immaturity, rushing to conclusions and doing things without thinking first. Let me give you first a background on the story.
The broadcaster was saying that near the 20th century the world was being watched closely by intelligences greater than man, yet as mortal as their own. The researchers in the American observatory were had an astronomical watch over the planet Mars. They said that Mars had three explosions. Some of the people also believed that there are living intelligences that live on Mars which was opposed by the astronomers. Then one day a weird looking meteor fell in a New Jersey backyard. Event soon followed after the meteor’s crash and then something came out, a strange being which has heat ray and killed the people near it. That’s when the people concluded that the strange being came from the army of Mars and is now invading our world.
Soon I was faced with the question, “Was I affected by it like the other listeners?”
ANSWER: If I was living at that particular period, listening to the radio drama, yes I would have been affected by it just like the others. If I was in that time, I would have thought that whatever the broadcaster’s saying is true, and totally forgetting the fact that it is just a drama. I would have believed every word that he said. This is because of the lack of other means of finding out whether what he is saying is true or not. Actually, the radio drama was really convincing. The broadcaster is talking to the field reporter and then suddenly there are cries and shouts and then all of a sudden the line went dead. The script was well written as well, not to mention the right cue on when the music would be played. The addition of music adds to the suspense. BUT I didn’t live at that particular period and so, I wasn’t affected by the radio drama. I am more used to technologies than those who lived in the 1930’s. They were probably new to the idea of radio and so they might believe everything that they hear. They aren’t used to illusions carried through the radio unlike my generations. They would have been more fooled because of the added music which kept them from blinking. All these summed up totally hypnotized and fooled them, making them to believe that what they hear is true.
Aug. 1, 2007, 7:30am. I woke up early to continue listening to the 1938 broadcast of HG Wells' War of the Worlds by the Mercury Theater. Soon, I got into it. I was absorbed. I was fascinated and thought it was rubbish. I personally don’t believe in UFO’s, aliens nor Martians or the like. I was even irritated to the people of that time for their immaturity, rushing to conclusions and doing things without thinking first. Let me give you first a background on the story.
The broadcaster was saying that near the 20th century the world was being watched closely by intelligences greater than man, yet as mortal as their own. The researchers in the American observatory were had an astronomical watch over the planet Mars. They said that Mars had three explosions. Some of the people also believed that there are living intelligences that live on Mars which was opposed by the astronomers. Then one day a weird looking meteor fell in a New Jersey backyard. Event soon followed after the meteor’s crash and then something came out, a strange being which has heat ray and killed the people near it. That’s when the people concluded that the strange being came from the army of Mars and is now invading our world.
Soon I was faced with the question, “Was I affected by it like the other listeners?”
ANSWER: If I was living at that particular period, listening to the radio drama, yes I would have been affected by it just like the others. If I was in that time, I would have thought that whatever the broadcaster’s saying is true, and totally forgetting the fact that it is just a drama. I would have believed every word that he said. This is because of the lack of other means of finding out whether what he is saying is true or not. Actually, the radio drama was really convincing. The broadcaster is talking to the field reporter and then suddenly there are cries and shouts and then all of a sudden the line went dead. The script was well written as well, not to mention the right cue on when the music would be played. The addition of music adds to the suspense. BUT I didn’t live at that particular period and so, I wasn’t affected by the radio drama. I am more used to technologies than those who lived in the 1930’s. They were probably new to the idea of radio and so they might believe everything that they hear. They aren’t used to illusions carried through the radio unlike my generations. They would have been more fooled because of the added music which kept them from blinking. All these summed up totally hypnotized and fooled them, making them to believe that what they hear is true.
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