Rationale IOA1

Whenever the phrase ‘Media and Culture’ would sound the word Propaganda would follow. Propaganda, a subject openly and elaborately discussed in school, not only in the English class but in Social Studies and History too, can be labelled as known to my fellow students and me. The read prose such as 1984 or just some study books about propaganda proof our vast knowledge about this interesting subject. This is why we, a group of four students, chose a broad subject as Propaganda to be the topic of a discussion.

Nowadays, we are often confronted with media in the form of discussions on the television. So whenever we thought of a discussion and media, a television show was the first thing that came up in our minds, taking the Inter Active Oral activity into account.

And thirdly, today’s news was filled with information concerning the election of Italy and the presidency of Berlusconi, would it be negatively, positively, neutral or subjectively. Although being informed about the way Berlusconi took the ruling role of presidency into account, nobody had already had the time or the right perspective to form a severe or extreme opinion on this issue.

Therefore our clear and neutral minds had the capacity to change or switch from a subjective point of view to a neutral point of view immediately. Taking this into account and trying to balance the information transferred to our audience we tried to divide different roles on different students. We agreed with a situation having two extreme subjective roles, one against Berlusconi’s way of ruling Italy and one for. A neutral, expert would be a great role to balance the twos. All three guests of this television show encountered the situation in Italy and the presidency of Berlusconi to get a more reliable view on this situation. Najade coped with the role of being a host. Our roles were realised according to the type of language they use, the amount of knowledge they capture and their point of view.

Though we held on a bit to close to our text, which made our presentation a bit to structured, the flow simultaneously balanced the presentation of our television show. And besides that, the roles perfectly suited us, according to me.