Algerians collectively reconstructed and invented news from a jammed broadcast

Evidence

But by common consent, after an exchange of views, it would be decided that the Voice had in fact spoken of these events, but that the interpreter had not caught the transmitted information. A real task of reconstruction would then begin. Everyone would participate, and the battles of yesterday and the day before would be re-fought in accordance with the deep aspirations and the unshakable faith of the group. The listener would compensate for the fragmentary nature of the news by an autonomous creation of information. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 300 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Along the same line should be mentioned the manner in which programs are listened to in Kabylia. In groups of scores and sometimes hundreds around a receiver, the peasants listen religiously to “the Voice of the Arabs.” Few understand the literary Arabic used in these broadcasts. But the faces assume a look of gravity and the features harden when the expression Istiqlal (Independence) resounds in the gourbi (shack). An Arab voice that hammers out the word Istiqlal four times in an hour suffices at that level of heightened consciousness to keep alive the faith in victory. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 340 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: News deprivation drove Algerian men to hysterical, suicidal public demonstrations of imagined victory; Algerians treated deliberate radio static as the presence of the Revolution; Algerian listeners collectively reconstructed and even invented the Voice’s news (+6 more)

Related

• Algerian listeners collectively reconstructed and even invented the Voice’s news (similarity 0.95)
• Fragmentary colonial-blocked news was reconstructed collectively by Algerian listeners. (similarity 0.93)
• News deprivation drove Algerian men to hysterical, suicidal public demonstrations of imagined victory (similarity 0.93)
• Uncomprehended Arabic broadcasts still sustained Algerian hope through the word Istiqlal (similarity 0.91)
• Algerians treated deliberate radio static as the presence of the Revolution (similarity 0.89)
• Even incomprehensible broadcasts sustain Algerians’ revolutionary faith (similarity 0.88)
• Algerian society autonomously reappropriated the radio as a weapon of revolution (similarity 0.87)
• Uncomprehended broadcasts still sustained Algerian peasants’ will to fight (similarity 0.86)

Broader Connections

• Fragmentary colonial-blocked news was reconstructed collectively by Algerian listeners. #corroborates (0.85) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 300
• Even incomprehensible broadcasts sustain Algerians’ revolutionary faith #expands (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 340
• Uncomprehended broadcasts still sustained Algerian peasants’ will to fight #expands (0.60)
• The Algerian revolution broke the colonizer’s monopoly on speech #expands (0.55)