How does older media serve as a template for wireless culture?
In my case study I focused on a myth story that Orson Welles read on the radio about Martians invading the earth called, "The War of the World." Welles
had a grand idea of fabricating a radio broadcast that he would present in a
dramatized form so that people listening would believe and undertake that it
was actually happening, rather than it being a sheer radio play. This caused
mass panic. People were going as far as committing suicide. Old media is indeed a template for wireless
culture.
There were many faults with old media (radio). The early years of radio
produced and used technological gadgets that use radio waves. Radio development
began as wireless telegraphy, which eventually became broadcasting. Old
media is a model for wireless culture; War of the Worlds showed the fault of
old media, which in contrast produced a template for what not to do when
looking into the future aka what new media is today. The War of the Worlds was a great example to look at and dig into when comparing old media to new media. Back in the day people's main news source was the radio so it made sense that they believed everything they heard. For example, today we have the ability to search and look specific things up. So if we were to hear something like "The War of the Worlds being broadcasted over the radio we would simply research it to find out more information.
WORKS CITED
• “A Short History of Data
Radio.” The Wireless Data Handbook, 2004, pp. 1–10.,
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• Chilton, Martin. “The
War of the Worlds Panic Was a Myth.” The Telegraph, Telegraph Media
Group, 13 Aug. 2015, www.telegraph.co.uk/radio/what-to-listen-to/the-war-of-the-worlds-panic-was-a-myth/.
• Hartson, William. “Top
10 Facts about Radio.” Express.co.uk, 24 Apr. 2014,
www.express.co.uk/life-style/top10facts/472231/Top-10-facts-about-radio.
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