Summary: Results of preliminary research on hard-core television 'zappers' (viewers who frequently change channels with the remote control) are discussed and analysed. The idea of a 'global programme' is presented and discussed; the zapper produces a unique programe by piecing together bits of all the available programmes at any given moment (all available programmes together form the 'global programme' - ever accessible though only seen a fragment at a time). The reasons for consuming television in this way, and the value of such 'communication' by modern standards, are examined.
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Pierre Cusy, Gabriel Germinet, Cécile Méadel, P. Ridel
Summary: Radio drama first rocked the English-speaking world in 1938 when Orson Welles's The War of the Worlds panicked many American listeners into believing that Martians had really invaded... But well before then, in 1924, a French spoof dramatisation of a shipwreck drew wails of anguish - and appreciative chuckles - from listeners to the primitive medium. Maremoto, with its original mix of borrowings from the theatre and the cinema, plus creative studio sound effects, blazed the trail for those who later made the radio play a wild success in the inter-war period.
{"title":"Maremoto: a radio play (1924)","authors":"Pierre Cusy, Gabriel Germinet, Cécile Méadel, P. Ridel","doi":"10.3406/RESO.1994.3281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3406/RESO.1994.3281","url":null,"abstract":"Summary: Radio drama first rocked the English-speaking world in 1938 when Orson Welles's The War of the Worlds panicked many American listeners into believing that Martians had really invaded... But well before then, in 1924, a French spoof dramatisation of a shipwreck drew wails of anguish - and appreciative chuckles - from listeners to the primitive medium. Maremoto, with its original mix of borrowings from the theatre and the cinema, plus creative studio sound effects, blazed the trail for those who later made the radio play a wild success in the inter-war period.","PeriodicalId":213999,"journal":{"name":"Réseaux. The French journal of communication","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121517551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}