Given all the political cartoon, news, and youtube videos thus produced by this lovely blog, we forget one media source; audio. I found a personal story of those returning to Gaza. I would recommend listening to it versus reading the transcript. Audio news provides something different than literature news in the fact that you get to hear voices and the surroundings. It engages different senses for us to experience that place.
Audio media seems to be more descriptive. There is more emphasis on trying to describe the place, people, and actions of what is going on in the area. With other sources, it is more dry or even unexplained since viewers are allowed to judge what is going on. Yet this type of journalism tries to be objective even though they must relate more to the listener. At the same time, you get to hear first hand about what people say. Hearing people's voices in this media is interesting since you feel more connected to that area, and even when the Israeli airplanes fly overhead, you feel much closer to it since that is the only sense you have to use.
As to geography and audio media, I feel as if there is another transported suspended place where it takes place. This place is limited to second hand knowledge. What is presented to you, you cannot see, you must create that space for yourself. The grave, for instance, I pictured something a bit different than what is actually there. The interpretations are different for each person. The place you create is much different than that may exist.
In some ways, it is another representation of the Middle East. Given these descriptions A, B, and C, your mind will think this. Yet, how does that stereotype or not stereotype the people that live there? It really begs the question if what we hear is "accurate" to reality. You think destroyed ruins, crap all over, crumbled buildings, people crying, distaught, angry such as the last woman at the end. Yet, what I have described seems accurate enough, but it doesn't fully reach the picture. Is there any type of media that encapsulates reality? Or are all media types going to inherently give flaws?
A sexual revolution -- women moving up in Iran
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To continue the focus on women from the reading, I found this article
posted on a non-profit news-source called Iran Focus**'s website. The
article itself...
15 years ago
Media, in my opinion, is always going to be "flawed" in some respects. Mainly because the audience is in the main focus of most news reporting and media productions. A lot of type of media encapsulate the realities of some in many ways, but not the reality that is the gravity of someones experience, beliefs, truths, and memory which you were referencing earlier.
ReplyDeleteI do like your auditory media description however, and I agree that it does make you more involved and give a greater sense of connection.
This seems to really bring those famed veiled and imagined geographies into the picture as well. The historical and collective memory is very prevalent in the grave description and the intent behind it.