Social+impact+of+radio+media+on+deaf+and+hard+of+hearing

=    = =__  Title:  __= = Social impact of radio media on deaf and hard hearing. = =__ Area of impact:  __= = Arts and entertainment  = =__ Article URL:  __= = Deaf and Hard of Hearing Vote Yes on New Radio Technology During NPR's Live Captioned Broadcast of Presidential Election  = =__ Name:  __= = Jonas N. Nissen 11S 01/12/08  = =__ ITGS portfolio HL  __= =__ Pages  __= = 1-4  = =__  Word count:  __= = 988  = =     = =     = =     = =     = =     = =     = =     = =     = =     = =     = In a recent news report of Marketwatch, “ Deaf and Hard of Hearing Vote Yes on New Radio Technology during NPR's Live Captioned Broadcast of Presidential Election” they concluded, that the new radio technology can be useful for deaf and hard hearing people. **//How? //** For an example if you a type of driver who often times listen to radio while driving a car with a deaf person or bad hearing, having a dual-view screen display  in the car  can be useful. This is because having a dual-view screen display allows deaf passenger s to see the captioned radio text while the driver is listening to the radio [1]. = The radios today,. = = If the radio is playing at the background of mixed collection of hearing and hard hearing/deaf people, this might make hard hearing and deaf people feel left out because they can hardly hear the radio. = Captioned radios also have an extended social impact on global equity, by helping the deaf/hard hearing people knows what is going on around the world, First of all, what is a radio? The radio is the next step from telegraph, the need to find a way to send telegraph signals over of water without cables. But the discovery process goes back much further than that, and has a lot of remarkable leaps. However, the first radio waves were discovered in 1860 by Maxwell, and then later on in 1879, Professor David Hughes invented a device that caught the sound of radio waves. Then later on, it developed to wireless, and then afterwards digital, where more people started listening to the radio more often because, for example workers or gamers would sit by their computers and listen to the radio at the same time [2]. The radio we have now have given a good impact on people like us, the fortunate – it helps to entertain us by providing us with music and interesting news. Radio waves transmit music, conversations, pictures and data invisibly thorough the air, usually over millions of miles. It happens every day in thousands of different ways. Most satellite radio signals are only able to travel 30 or 40 miles from their source, the radio station. A negative aspect about the radio is that the signals can be intercepted by an unwanted source. This is especially important when radio messages are used to give instructions in military conflicts.  There are four impacts that this would give – social, cultural, psychological and ethical. It is a social impact because for the deaf and the hard hearing, they aren’t able to hear the radio, therefore it makes them feel upset, lonely and miserable. For me there will be a cultural impact on people this is because in Denmark, it is Christian tradition to read a part of the bible during Christmas  over the radio. Therefore, we can listen and pray together. There is a psychological impact because the deaf and the hard hearing may feel a low self-esteem once they realize that they are left out, therefore it will mentally hurt them and maybe even be serious at times where their brain might see things differently and have a different opinion than anyone else. This is ethical because there is by far more people who can hear, than people who can’t. In the United States, the SIPP indicate that fewer then one in twenty Americans are currently deaf or hard hearing, nearly 10,000,000 persons are hard hearing and close to 1,000,000 are functionally deaf, out of all the residents who live in the united states, which is 301,139,947 [3]. More of the half out of all of them are over 65 years or older, and less than 4% out of all of them are 18 or under [4]. So it is only 3.32% of the world, who can’t hear the radio, and for the rest of the world it is a big advantage, but for the 3.32% of the world it is a big disadvantage, because if they don’t have a TV, and they can’t watch since language, then they have no opportunity to know what is going on around the world. So the worst impact is that the deaf people can’t hear the radio, and if they don’t have any TV, then they have no idea what is going on around the world, and they might feel left out, and feel like they are a lot different to us other people who can hear, and then they might get upset. A way to solve/improve the problem that the deaf and hard hearing feel left out, is that new radios gets captioned (picture 1). **picture 1** //captioned dual view screen//) [5]  There are both advantages and disadvantages by having captioned radios. The advantages would be that, if we start to put dual-view screen up everywhere official where there also is a radio, and start to put it in cars when we make them. Then the deaf and hard hearing people can “listen” to the radio, by read the subtitles, so if they are sitting in a car with hearing people, they can read the subtitles while the hearing people are driving can hear it, and then all of them can be entertained, by the radio.  But the disadvantages would be that, if for example a hearing guy is driving car alone, and he miss something in the radio, and he/her are going to look at the screen, and not at the road. Then if he/her are not aware on the road while he/her are driving car, then he/her might have a car accident, and risking he/hers, and others life. But in conclusion, having a dual-view screen where deaf and hard hearing people are hearing radio, would improve the social impact of deaf/hard hearing a lot, and make everyone feel happier and make none feel left out. Brian, Marshall. "How the Radio Spectrum Works." __How stuff worsk__. <[|http://http://www.howstuffworks.com/radio-spectrum.htm]>. Schoenherr., Steven E. "B.Inventors." __History of radios__. 1999. 2001 . White, Thommas H. "Articles and extracts about early radio and related technologies, concentrating on the United States in the period from 1897 to 1927." __UNITED STATES EARLY RADIO HISTORY__. 11 Mar. 2003. .
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[1] Quoted from the news article http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Deaf-Hard-Hearing-Vote-Yes/story.aspx?guid=%7B806E44C9-7407-49AB-BC7C-A56E0E99583F%7D [2] Paraphrased from http://www.connected-earth.com/Galleries/Telecommunicationsage/Awirelessworld/Theoriginsofradio/index.htm?gclid=COaK3eLpnJcCFQsupAodV1UkJA. [3] Quoted from: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/print/us.html [4] Quoted from: http://jdsde.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/11/1/112 [5] Picture taken from http://www.gotvoice.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/radio-for-the-deaf.jpg