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Directions: Read the passage carefully and answer the questions given below. With the proliferation of printed and especially broadcast media in the late nineteenth and earlytwentieth century serious concerns about the social impact of the mass media emerged. There was considerable excitement about the positive and constructive contribution of the media to peaceful international relations. Such positive expectations were expressed in the 1933 Convention for Facilitating the International Circulation of Films of an Educational Character. This Convention was signed at Geneva on October 11, 1933. The Contracting parties to the Convention, which was registered with the secretariat of the League of Nations, considered the international circulation of educational films which contribute 'towards the mutual understanding of peoples, in conformity with the aims of the League of Nations and consequently encourage moral disarmament' highly desirable. In order to facilitate the circulation of such films the signatories agreed to exempt their importation, transit, and exportation from all Customs duties and accessory charges of any kind. There was however also a serious concern about the negative social impact of the mass media. A moral, educational concern was expressed regarding the spread across borders of obscene publications. This concern resulted in the adoption of the 1910 and 1924 treaties on traffic in obscene publications. The 1924 International Convention for the Suppression of the Circulation of and Traffic in Obscene Publications declared it a punishable offence 'to make or produce or have in possession (for trade or public exhibition) obscene writings, drawings, prints, paintings, printed matter, pictures, posters, emblems, photographs, cinematograph films or any other obscene objects.' It was also punishable to import or export said obscene matters for trade or public exhibition and persons committing the offence 'shall be amenable to the Courts of the Contracting Party in whose territories the offence… was committed.' Concern about the negative impact of the mass media also arose from the increasing use of the mass media (in the course of the nineteenth century) as instruments of foreign diplomacy. Although this was particularly the case with the newspapers, the development of wireless radio did significantly increase the potential for this new form of diplomacy. Increasingly diplomats shifted from traditional forms of silent diplomacy to a public diplomacy in which the constituencies of other states were directly addressed. In most cases this in fact amounted to the propagandistic abuse of the radio. During World War I an extensive use was made of the means of propaganda. This psychological warfare continued after the war had ended and International short wave radio began its proliferation. 46. What was the issue related to the proliferation of media in the early twentieth century?

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Directions: <em>Read the passage carefully</em> <em>and answer the questions given below.</em> With the proliferation of printed and especially broadcast media in the late nineteenth and earlytwentieth century serious concerns about the social impact of the mass media emerged. There was considerable excitement about the positive and constructive contribution of the media to peaceful international relations. Such positive expectations were expressed in the 1933 Convention for Facilitating the International Circulation of Films of an Educational Character. This Convention was signed at Geneva on October 11, 1933. The Contracting parties to the Convention, which was registered with the secretariat of the League of Nations, considered the international circulation of educational films which contribute 'towards the mutual understanding of peoples, in conformity with the aims of the League of Nations and consequently encourage moral disarmament' highly desirable. In order to facilitate the circulation of such films the signatories agreed to exempt their importation, transit, and exportation from all Customs duties and accessory charges of any kind. There was however also a serious concern about the negative social impact of the mass media. A moral, educational concern was expressed regarding the spread across borders of obscene publications. This concern resulted in the adoption of the 1910 and 1924 treaties on traffic in obscene publications. The 1924 International Convention for the Suppression of the Circulation of and Traffic in Obscene Publications declared it a punishable offence 'to make or produce or have in possession (for trade or public exhibition) obscene writings, drawings, prints, paintings, printed matter, pictures, posters, emblems, photographs, cinematograph films or any other obscene objects.' It was also punishable to import or export said obscene matters for trade or public exhibition and persons committing the offence 'shall be amenable to the Courts of the Contracting Party in whose territories the offence… was committed.' Concern about the negative impact of the mass media also arose from the increasing use of the mass media (in the course of the nineteenth century) as instruments of foreign diplomacy. Although this was particularly the case with the newspapers, the development of wireless radio did significantly increase the potential for this new form of diplomacy. Increasingly diplomats shifted from traditional forms of silent diplomacy to a public diplomacy in which the constituencies of other states were directly addressed. In most cases this in fact amounted to the propagandistic abuse of the radio. During World War I an extensive use was made of the means of propaganda. This psychological warfare continued after the war had ended and International short wave radio began its proliferation.<br /> 46. What was the issue related to the proliferation of media in the early twentieth century?






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