Post-1954 Europeans recognized an information network in native society that excluded them

Evidence

Radiophonic technique, the press, and in a general way the systems, messages, sign transmitters, exist in colonial society in accordance with a well-defined statute. Algerian society, the dominated society, never participates in this world of signs. The messages broadcast by Radio-Alger are listened to solely by the representatives of power in Algeria, solely by the members of the dominant authority and seem magically to be avoided by the members of the “native” society. The non-acquisition of receiver sets by this society has precisely the effect of strengthening this impression of a closed and privileged world that characterizes colonialist news. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 267 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Native non-adoption reinforced the impression of radio as a closed colonial world — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 267

Related

• Native non-adoption reinforced the impression of radio as a closed colonial world (similarity 0.94)
• The colonized relation to radio underwent dialectical mutation, not ambivalence (similarity 0.85)
• Radios let settlers resist cultural absorption by the native environment (similarity 0.84)
• Radio confirmed settlers’ sense of rightful continuity with the conquest (similarity 0.83)
• Before 1954 an Algerian radio marked Europeanization and vulnerability (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial radio services altered programming schedules to respect Algerian family hierarchy (similarity 0.81)
• Algerian radio adoption bypassed technical stages due to absence of electricity (similarity 0.80)
• The settler’s radio functioned as psychological armor against the surrounding native environment (similarity 0.80)
• Before 1945 Europeans owned 95 percent of Algerian radios (similarity 0.79)
• French colonial rule counteracted Algerian radio access by banning radio sales. (similarity 0.79)
• The national struggle transformed the radio from hostile object into protective one (similarity 0.79)
• Algerian society refused radio because it was modeled on Western family norms (similarity 0.79)
• Colonized Algerians rejected the radio without any organized resistance, contradicting Western sociological explanations (similarity 0.78)
• French colonial broadcasting in Algeria dropped Arabic content, serving only French speakers (similarity 0.78)
• Algerian society autonomously reappropriated the radio as a weapon of revolution (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Native non-adoption reinforced the impression of radio as a closed colonial world #complicates (0.55) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 267