SCIENCE IN ACTION
FROM THE BBC NEWS WEBSITE
BRIEF SUMMARY: This is about meteors
hitting the Earth could become more frequent and that people are
underestimating this, so we won’t be prepared if this does happen. Although,
they believe that people shouldn't be afraid now, but they should be aware of
this and to make this sustainable in the next 100 years. Professor Peter Brown
believes that there should more prediction systems to let us know about events
such as Chelyabinsk. Also, India is doing a rocket launch to Mars, if this journey
goes well they will be the first Asian country to reach mars, they also want to
conduct experiments around Mars to look at the life on this red plant. However,
some commentators believe that if India has the highest rate of children who
are relatively poorly and sick, should they really be spending money on making
rockets to go in to space rather than trying to reduce the amount of problems
India are already facing.
AUDIENCE: The Interactivity with the
audience, talking to other professors online on the phone and talking about
what they have been recently been discovering so that they can receive more
information about the action in space. Such as Dr Daniel Tube he was talking
about being able to control your bladder when out in space, to minimise the
urge, for instance they are trying to make a device such as the IPhone which
you can press to stop the nerves in your body from wanting to go to the toilet,
to make it easier for the astronaut. From listening to this story I can guess
that their audience that they are targeting are those who are interested in the
affairs going on in space and this could be young science professors wanting to
be learning more about the matters and helps them broaden their minds. Also
given from the title, I can see how this straight away relates to people who
are interested in scientific activities.
NEWS VALUES: Threshold is a news value which is used in
this story because the story uses facts and past events to talk about and
predict what could happen in the future and people are interested in this
because they want to know how and why this is happening, so they audience can
prevent it. Proximity is also used in this story, this is because of when they
are talking to the man in India who introduced the reasons to why they have
built this rocket, so when they are he is talking about it people in India will
listening will relate to him in either a good or bad way, as everyone has their
opinions.
LANGUAGE: Well, throughout the radio
news cast the language and tone used was formal, although there was slight use
of sarcasm when talking about people who are listening, and for them not to be
afraid of what is happening they said ‘we don’t want people tossing and turning
in bed about it’. Which suggests how although they are talking about a serious
matter of meteors possibly becoming more frequent, they don’t want to frighten
their audience. Also by doing this, it allows their audience to feel more
connected with the presenter as they feel that he is considering their feeling
about the matter and trying to comfort them, which is why he used a slight bit
of humour.
SOUND: During the story, they didn't use sound at all, it was mainly silence while the presenter was talking. This
is so that it wouldn't draw the audience away from the matter they are talking
about and allow the audience to hear what the other people on the phone are
talking about, because sometimes they are not of the best quality.
The
sources used for this blog, was the live information from the radio news cast.
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