War of the Worlds

1) What is the history and narrative behind War of the Worlds?

it is a communicated adjusted from H.G Wells' 1898 novel. 
2) When was it first broadcast and what is the popular myth regarding the reaction from the audience?

first communicated on the 30th October 1938 and the legend is that their crowd responded significantly.

3) How did the New York Times report the reaction the next day?

The NY Times detailed it as "Radio Listeners in Panis, Taking War Drama as Fact"

4) How did author Brad Schwartz describe the the broadcast and its reaction?

"viral-media wonder." and the show really offered a "captivating window into how clients connect with media substance, spreading and reinterpreting it." 

5) Why did Orson Welles use hybrid genres and pastiche and what effect might it have had on the audience?

he did that since it made more individuals to trust it as it paralleled to writings that the group of spectators were at that point acquainted with.
6) How did world events in 1938 affect the way audiences interpreted the show?

booked radio reports were hindered with crisis cut-ins, about Hitler and his arrangements to attack and begin the following scene war. 
7) Which company broadcast War of the Worlds in 1938?

CBS
8) Why might the newspaper industry have deliberately exaggerated the response to the broadcast?

papers were under risk as radio turned into another contender as they were new so along these lines they misrepresented the reaction to the communicate trying to make a frenzy encompassing the effect of the radio business 

9) Does War of the Worlds provide evidence to support the Frankfurt School's Hypodermic Needle theory?

this implies when the crowds expend and react to media messages in an unquestioning manner, accepting what they read, see or hear. they were new to new media structures like radio so they could have trusted it as it was another thing. 
10) How might Gerbner's cultivation theory be applied to the broadcast?

their crowd know about the continuous interferences to radio shows throughout the weeks paving the way to the communicate did not scrutinize the fake attack communicates during Welles' creation.
11) Applying Hall's Reception Theory, what could be the preferred and oppositional readings of the original broadcast?

The predominant or favored perusing by the group of spectators is the one proposed by the maker of the content. the oppositional route contingent on variables, for example, their age, sexual orientation or foundation. 

12) Do media products still retain the ability to fool audiences as it is suggested War of the Worlds did in 1938? Has the digital media landscape changed this?

The 1938 and 1949 radio communicates of War of the Worlds unmistakably had the ability to bamboozle probably a portion of the listening group of spectators, However, given that crowds got the content in a cinema (or on record and DVD) they are less inclined to have tricked the crowd similarly

Analysis and opinion

1) Why do you think the 1938 broadcast of War of the Worlds has become such a significant moment in media history?

it turned out to be such a critical minute in the media since it was the main radio program and it made a great deal of frenzy since individuals really thought there were outsiders when truth be told they were simply having a great time. 

2) War of the Worlds feels like a 1938 version of 'fake news'. But which is the greater example of fake news - Orson Welles's use of radio conventions to create realism or the newspapers exaggerating the audience reaction to discredit radio?

as I would like to think I think the utilization of radio since they made and made up something to appear as though it really occurred. 

3) Do you agree with the Frankfurt School's Hypodermic Needle theory? If not, was there a point in history audiences were more susceptible to believing anything they saw or heard in the media?

I think individuals accepted the war of the universes as the primary thing in history as it was before the Frankfurt School's Hypodermic Needle hypothesis. 

4) Has the digital media age made the Hypodermic Needle model more or less relevant? Why?

progressively applicable in light of the fact that individuals still right up 'til today still think all that they read via web-based networking media. 

5) Do you agree with George Gerbner's Cultivation theory - that suggests exposure to the media has a gradual but significant effect on audience's views and beliefs? Give examples to support your argument.

indeed I do in light of the fact that now a days people accept about all that they read on the web and this can be connected for the more youthful age and the more seasoned age. the more youthful age since they are increasingly guilable and for the more established age they probably won't be certain about utilizing the web. 

6) Is Gerbner's Cultivation theory more or less valid today than it would have been in 1938? Why?

I think it is increasingly substantial now as almost everybody utilizes online networking in the advanced at that point in those days