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rel: Telematics
In his speech on “the function of radio” in 1932, Bertolt Brecht demanded that “art and radio should be placed at the disposal of pedagogic aims” 1
“In my view you should try to make radio broadcasting into a really democratic thing.”
The radio must be turned from a distribution apparatus to a communications apparatus. The radio must make exchange possible, to bring individuals into a network instead of isolating, allowing to speak as well as to hear.
- One way media: newspapers, radio and television.
- Dialogic media: letters, telephone and e-mail.
- the sender and receiver switch roles constantly and share responsibility for the relationship
Radio was “a colossal triumph of technology at last to be able to make accessible to the entire world a Viennese waltz and a kitchen recipe.”
Public vs private space
In 1929, while still governor of New York, Franklin D. Roosevelt discovered that the radio could be used to communicate with his citizens in a way that was as powerful as it was intimate. Between 1933 and 1944, at that time as president of the United States, he systematized and perfected this format in 30 so-called Fireside Chats that allowed his warm and sympathetic voice to come across yet helped conceal the symptoms of his polio. The technology had removed the separation between public and private space.