Media Making Chapter 1

Media Making Chapter 1
I thought that was a good point about how 9/11 would have been different if there had been different media available, more or less sophisticated. It’s true that people are always jumping on twitter, like the rescuers of the plane that landed in the Hudson. Or go in the other direction and think about how it would have been different had the TV networks not been broadcasting live as the second plane hit, or if our communication infrastructure had not been prepared to relay the messages on every station of both TV and radio.
It is interesting to hear that a composer would not appreciate something like a phonograph. One would think that anything to Re-Produce a message like a great opera or musical score would be welcomed with open arms. Of course the phonograph has no soul, but the original artists still do and now they get to share it (or sell it) to anyone. The circumstance kind of reminds me of the camera taking away people’s spirits. That somehow this Re-Production takes away from the original rather than mimicking it. It is always interesting, if not frustrating to hear of some people’s resistance to new technology.
Speaking of reproducing, the communication models were covered well in class, but I liked the books example of the Transmission Model when applied to the Columbine Shooting and how this model supported the idea that violent music and video games significantly impacted the resulting tragedy. Whether or not this is true is for another discussion, but it certainly points out that this model will not always yield accurate conclusions. Propaganda can follow this same model for their own end regardless of any empirical evidence.