DESMA 8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Orson Welles, Citizen Kane, World War I
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L e c t u r e 1 0. Television, the third wave s the optimal medium that comes into the home. If cinema is the urban medium, television is the suburban. People are even watching it on various technological devices that are not even television themselves (e. g. tablets, laptops, etc. ) What about radio? (television without the visuals) Early radio: a medium just a little over 100 years old) The term broadcasting itself actually comes from agriculture (you have some seeds in your hand and you want to get crops out of them so you spread them over your farm ~ planting in many different locations) The rst great mediated star: carusso (key gure in broadcasting) 1910 to the start of wwi there were many experi- ments such as kids trying to build their own radio (people trying to stray together their own networks) Radio turned from amateur, do-it-on your own time to war informative medium.
