供的寶貴建議,以及研究助理石婉婷、呂逸瑄、蔡昕宸、楊雅婷、三村知寬等在 寫作期間協助搜集資料並翻譯,俾使內容更加豐富完善。 Media Technology and Modernity: An Investigation of Radio Usage and Urban Life in the 1930s Colonial Taiwan

Sumei Wang
unpublished
This article explores the everyday usage of radio in the 1930s colonial Taiwan. Situating in the narrations of urban life provided by 'Inviolable Destiny', the article aims to depict the complicated networks constituted by radio and other media technologies, and to investigate the interrelationships between new media technologies, consumerism and modernity. Being influenced by globalization, Japan witnessed huge transformations of lifestyles and the rise of mass media and popular culture during
more » ... the interwar period. Radio was introduced to Taiwan by its ruler with great enthusiasm toward modernity. Although it was the colonizer's intention to discipline the colonized by means of radio, the medium turned into an important source of information and entertainment for lay people. The radio also privatized synchronization and made punctuality an inseparable part of modern life. It affected the rhythms of cities and brought Taiwan into the complex systems of capitalism and globalization.
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