Task 2 Week 1

I have chosen to focus on the Joseph Gobbels speech as my task for this week.

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A) Gobbels states, "The old regime was content simply to fill empty offices or change the faces, without however changing the spirit and content of public life. We on the other hand intend a principled transformation in the worldview of our entire society, a revolution of the greatest possible extent that will leave nothing out, changing the life of our nation in every regard." showing that in their political agenda they were not just concerned with changing peoples lives within work and the home but by changing their social experience of living under the Nazi regime, using the radio as "Volksempfänger" which is German for the 'people's receiver'.

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B) Gobbels' views would have been seen as normal, because we in society today are always being astounded by the 'new media' that is given to our society, whether it be, ipod, iphone, HD tv, DAB radio. He was certain that radio in the 20th Century would be the printing press of the 19th Century. For example, "The radio will be for the twentieth century what the press was for the nineteenth century. With the appropriate change, one can apply Napoleon's phrase to our age, speaking of the radio as the eighth great power."

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C)The Internet has allowed social change, in the sense of interacting with others. We can have our shopping delivered to our door step, talk to our friends through e-mail and social networking sites such as facebook and work from home. So the internet has given us the ability to live our lives without leaving our houses. This was seen as a utopian state but now can be seen as a moral panic.