his programme provided both a space for a group that is usually silenced and was constructed explicitly in terms of the need for collective activism.
I find this really interesting because when other programs are brought into conversation about white radicalization which has been even more prevalent (with Birth of a Nation) they aren't deemed to be spoken as negatively, but rather a "reflection fo the time". I just think this double standard is important to note
irst, the way Oprah defines discrimination; second, the questions she poses to set up these programmes; and third, where she locates the issue of discrimination both socially and within the run of the show.
I definitely agree with this argument, but I also think about how many people approve of the content shown on her show, before it even gets to her.
Indeed, it seemed that Jolene could do nothing right
I think this is a feeling that a lot of women feel in regards to their family. There is a pressure on the woman to tend to the children and husband on top of their own needs without any help.
her show is often explicitly informed by a feminist sensibility that challenges the split between public and private, aims toward a kind of egalitarianism, and can be said to embody and generate a version of Black (liberal) feminism
I understand this point, but I also look at a different point of view where Oprah was innovative within her content, partly because she was a black woman. Her experience being black and a woman differed from other talk shows that were either white women or white men. This made her stand out to the audience, and gave diversity to the screen.
often in contradictory ways.
This is important to note. America tries to come out "on top" in many ways. Enforcing a narrative that the American Dream is something to be desired can be a jarring experience when you look at America in a political, social, and economic way.
Show are not only frequent topics of media attention, but also appear intertextually in a staggering range of televisual genre
I think of Oprah being on several other shows and forms of media, as horizontally integrating her brand as Oprah!
t ‘jammed aircraft communication’.
I wonder how often this happened before people started to know about it
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I wonder if there was ever a question of reliability and truth from people talking on the radio
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I wonder what our world would look like if broadcasting systems like this didn't evolve the way they did
, a prominent figure in the lead-up to the inauguration of broadcasting in Britain, wrote that ‘telephony has some of the properties both of the letter and of the newspaper: it can be clothed with privacy, given to one individual only, or it can be broadcast to millions simultaneously
Crazy how this can also describe our modern day telephones as well!!
hey were interfering with important communications’
Which demographics of people were getting effected the most by this interception?
Electrophone Company was formed in London to provide ‘listening facilities’, including four pairs of headphones and an answering-back ‘hand microphone’ for every subscriber. M
I am curious to know the race/gender/class demographics that affected the accessibility of the device
nly technical but social forces.
I am curious to know if the public was hesitation to the development of radio- sort of like how we are hesitant to Ai advancements
Modestly he added that ‘there are numerous other fields to which the principle can be extende
What a big idea for someone to have at the time! Idea for how modern day broadcasting came to be
ot as a mystery but as an art
This is interesting to me because in practice, it is being used as a form of communication and commodity, but I wonder what the average person thought of radio especially being used in war!
Hullo, Furnivall. If you can hear me now it will be the first time speech has ever been communicated to an aeroplane in flight. Dip if you are hearing me”
I can't imagine how astonishing that was to do for the first time!
Marconi operators, bound to secrecy, worked in shifts day and night throughout the entire 4½ years
What was the demographic that would work these shifts? similar to those that did telegraph?
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This is wild that even then, wireless has such a great impact on how historical events played out
but those messengers who choose to study telegraphy are said to make especially good operators.
I wonder what the age range is when referring to boys, how sustainable is an education solely on telegraphy throughout adult life
while in summer the number of boys in this training-school may dwindle down to twelve or fifteen.
I am curious to know how far boys commuted to get trained, and what the demand was for jobs like being a telegraph boy
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is the school only for how to do a telegraph job? Is there no other subject being taught
1,513,265 messages were delivered by the District boys in the year ended September 30, 187
that is a lot of messages!
ally has the satisfaction of knowing that a good day's work and a day's pay have already been set down to his credit.
I wonder how often this actually happened
very careful record of each boy's work is kept, showing just how long he is absent in delivering each message.
I wonder if this lead to a form of favoritism by the supervisors in any way
Not less than nineteen miles!
Wow! That is a lot of walking around and moving
This gives every boy an incentive to deliver every message as promptly as possible, and to hurry back for another one.
I wonder how much of a difference in pay boys of different age and physicality made due to this system of pay
y short time lost in opening and shutting umbrellas is held to be worth considering
i think this is a great line that emulates the working mentality that was placed upon people!
a very small cost
I am curious to know even with a cheaper expense, what demographics were using telegraph system the most
alike, and a little inquiry will show that this is because they are in the employ of different compani
I am curious to know how these professions would look in the modern era, if technology didn't develop the way it did
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This is an important distinction! Many children worked and were taken advantage of in the early 1900s, but these infrastructures wouldn't be where they are without that exploitation (sadly)