HI, ladies!!
It is Wednesday, October 1, 2008, today, and has been humid and hot again. But the cold will become severe day by day, I guess.
Today’s topic:
How will the Internet change the mass media?
Recently the world of Internet has achieved a remarkable development, causing drastic change in the information science, especially in the mass media.
Firstly, the Internet allows users to have access a variety of information more easily than the existing media. If only with a circumstance with PC, we can get it through PC anytime, anywhere.
Secondly, once we set own PC, we can receive a lot of news on it for free, which come not only from the mass media, but also from every news source. It will produce the diversity of information for all.
Thirdly, on the Internet everyone can dispatch information to the world, enjoying interactive communication, while the mass media is staying in their one-sided style.
IN conclusion, the Internet has already changed the mass media and information itself. We have experienced a great evolution in dealing with all information. If the mass media can’t show their own special features, they won’t survive in this hard time. (160)
…We’ve greatly recieved a valuable treasure from the Internet, indeed. The other day I could get a fantastic gem, just only for me, through the Net surfing…I’ll talk to you about it next.
So, see you later, bye!
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Dear Cherry and friends,
Hi! ^o^`
Typhoon has gone.
I’m interested in what you find on the Internet, Cherry.
I had not finished Chapter 3 of Dyhouse’s No distinction of sex? yet.
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• Families, boarding houses or colleges?
Models of community life
The earliest hostels were often run on domestic or quasi-familial lives. (p.111) Although students increased, efforts to preserve a family atmosphere were sustained. The early benefactors tried to develop a collegiate atmosphere within hostels as were the cases in Oxbridge women’s colleges.
If students were treated like school children, the relationship between students and hall authorities were worsened.
• Students or school girls?
This section includes two topics: Confrontations, and social experiences.
Two conspicuous cases which illustrate confrontations between students and wardens are adduced first. In the early 1920s, 3 wardens of Masson Hall in Edinburgh resigned before they intended to do so. Students submitted a petition to urge the house committee to dismiss the Warden, Agnes Bell. Miss Bell became ill and left the Hall. Her successor, Miss Wilson (Nov. 1920 – Mar. 1921) did not last long. Miss Bailey who took over the position faced scandalous incidents caused by students. The second scandal in which a student lied and stayed at a hotel in town was fatal for Miss Bailey’s career. Marjorie Rackstraw (1925-1957) was her successor and a successful warden of the Masson Hall.
The second case was about an unpopular warden of Alexandra Hall in Aberystwyth. In 1926, the warden, Mrs Guthkelch, issued a formal proclamation about strict dress codes. The deteriorated relationship between the warden and students caused the decline of the number of students, and thus, the financial deficit. To make matters worse, food was economized. Students complained about inadequate food and Mrs Guthkelch was blamed.
The second topic was students’ social experiences. A recollection of a student who studied medicine at University College London and lived in College Hall expresses her excitement about cosmopolitan and unusual social mix in the Hall.
Olive Marsh lived in Alexandra Hall. Her letter written in 1898 tells that a student who was caught talking to a fellow out of one of the windows of the Hall was expelled. “Calling out of window” was a heinous crime.
• A woman’s space? Students, domestic staff and the privileges of hall life
Miscellaneous things around halls of residence were raised in this section.
Domestic staff was appreciated once in a while at some halls. For example, In Alexandra Hall, maids were given a wooden wardrobe after ten years of service.
Some halls set up student committees to foster independence and social responsibilities among students. Dyhouse argues;
that halls of residence for female students
did constitute an important
“women’s space” in universities.
(p.123)
Halls’ own magazines provide evidence of this.
Halls of residence for women students were the place where they built up lifelong friendship. After graduation, they became fundraisers for the Halls. They always remembered life in University Hall.
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Good night.
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