So I was watching Citizen Kane the other day and the portion of the movie when the news of Kane’s death was spreading really caught my eye. One scene in particular was set in a cafe and every person had their head buried in a newspaper reading his obituary. It made me think of people receiving news of such a public figure dying today. Take the death of Saddam Hussein for instance. People weren’t reading about it in the newspaper, they were checking it on their blackberry’s and watching a phone video of the hanging!
Times they are a changin’
November 25, 2008 by cateo
Nice catch, Cate. To me, one of the more interesting elements of this class has been learning about how the advent of all this wild new technology is affecting the way people acquire and relate to news and information. Who would have thought that we would be watching video via a cell phone? Surely not Citizen Kane. Science fiction is only fiction until the science catches up to it, and I can’t wait to see how all of this continues to unfold.