I really liked this week’s presentation and discussion. So much so that I want to reemphasize one thing that I mentioned during Joe and I’s presentation on the elements of Dashan. On Tuesday, I mentioned that the Zambian culture considers the radio as part of their culture rather than an addition to it. Like professor said, it is an ingredient to their culture recipe. On Thursday we touched on this notion of “double sensation” which can be explained by “touch and be touched”. This is what I think is key is the relationship between culture and media. It also relates back to the relationship between the producer and the audience meaning that anyone can play either role at any point in time (which is also why social media apps are so popular nowadays).

Maya raises a good question in her post which questions if media can be produced without an audience in mind? This question made me think of another one: Can one be the producer as well as the audience at the same time? In other words can a producer of media be its own audience? To me, this would still fall under the notion of double sensation as the content produced still affects the producer in one way or the other. But what do you and professor think?