Protestant missionaries came to Kenya and taught new converts how to read and write so that they could read the bible for themselves. After learning how to read and write, they took it further and published things for themselves such as newspapers and magazines. Even today the church is still involved in some magazine publishing in Kenya.
http://www.pressreference.com/Gu-Ku/Kenya.html
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I also found this to be pretty interesting! It's not really the past media it's more focused on more recent newspapers but if you compare the site I gave earlier and this one it's really interesting how fare media has come.
http://proquest.umi.com.er.lib.k-state.edu/pqdlink?index=15&did=2217233981&SrchMode=2&sid=3&Fmt=3&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1297752102&clientId=48067
I got this from google scholar.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/africa_today/v048/48.3danso.html
It talks about how English-language newspapers dominate South Africa's print media. This is very interesting to me because you would think that more people would want to read something in their native language, yet millions of Africans are preferring to read their newspaper in English. It also stated that "the English-language press is also read by the most important decision makers and policy advisers in the country on a regular basis and no doubt influences coverage in non-English newspapers as well as television and radio". What in the world is going on here? This is corrupting their culture!
My video title is called "The eyes of the mediated world are on Egypt". For my video I will be focusing on the question that asks "Are we really watching the true story of what's going on in Egypt"? The media can change what they want in order to make a story more interesting and to have more views by their viewers. Not only are the News reporters upping the story, but anyone with a camera has power. Some people wont do anything rash without a camera to show the rest of the world, while others wont do anything while the camera is on, so the worlds eyes wont be on them. To help me with my video I used these two sources-
War and Peace in the Global Village Part III (pages 126-190) Marchall McLuhan
This talks about how "technology disturbs the image, both private and corporate in any society, so much that fear and anxiety ensue and a new quest for identity has to begin". This helps me because I think it is a lot easier for someone to hide and protest behind a camera and act like they are tough and are going to do something big while yelling at a camera vs. going out and yelling a the government with few watching. So the images that we are seeing over here in America or anywhere else in the world could be full of people who are acting in a manner that they have never acted before. These pages are talking about how technology worked in other wars as well, so it gives me an idea of what it could be doing now (history repeats its self).
http://www.jstor.org.er.lib.k-state.edu/stable/25064857?seq=2&Search=yes&searchText=Egypt&searchText=Media&list=hide&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoAdvancedSearch%3Fq0%3DEgypt%26f0%3Dall%26c1%3DAND%26q1%3DMedia%2B%26f1%3Dall%26acc%3Don%26wc%3Don%26Search%3DSearch%26ar%3Don%26sd%3D%26ed%3D%26la%3D%26jo%3D%26dc.Anthropology%3DAnthropology%26dc.History%3DHistory%26dc.HistoryofScience%2526amp%253BTechnology%3DHistory%2Bof%2BScience%2B%2526amp%253B%2BTechnology%26dc.MiddleEastStudies%3DMiddle%2BEast%2BStudies%26dc.Sociology%3DSociology&prevSearch=&item=12&ttl=3851&returnArticleService=showFullText&resultsServiceName=null
This article helped guide my ideas for my video about how widespread technology can go across the globe. It talks about critical ethnography of the cultural politics of globalization and a broader concept of a medium. I like that it emphasizes on how we are a "public culture". That term is something I want to use in my video because everything we do now is public and the majority of people are okay with that.
I also found a couple of books at the library, but because the forth floor was going through some problems I can get to them till Wednesday or Thursday...
Egypt's revolution
Terrorism and the Press An Uneasy Relationship
Cameras are changing the world in more ways then one realizes everyday. The cameras in Egypt capturing images are (in my opinion) the strongest force driving the revolution. People from around the world are sitting down and watching what is happening across the globe, but what they don't realize is that what they are seeing is completely bias. None of the people who are pushing for a revolution are going to calmly look at a camera and talk to it as if they were calming putting their child to sleep. Instead they are going to yell at the camera, do things in front of it that they might not do if few people were watching. They are hyping up their actions in front of the camera because they know the whole world is watching them and when they see the extreme measures they are taking they hope to inspire the viewers to do the same. Recently more reporters are being attacked and camera smashed. People who are on the other side of the revolution don't want to be seen by the world because they are scared so they have started making life for the reporters hell. In some parts of Egypt they aren't letting people buildings with a camera because they are afraid violence will break out.
Though cameras are causing all kinds of violence, they still can be used to save lives. The rest of my ideas for my project will remain a surprise. But, here is my trailer to get you excited for the final video...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo1F6MmZc7w
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