Red Space Rocket

Tash asked this question.

okay……….What major trend in the 1920s does this person represent? Explain why(150 words)
Hint: think about mass production, mass media, organised crime, new movies, new dance, and celebrity.
im refering to the last question on the assignment.
i dont understand/ know what mass media and all those topics you have mentioned mean soo if you could kindly tell me or point me to the answers on this site thingy it would be really apreciated =]
the only thing i have left is this last question and its driving me crazy trying to figure it out =/

and here is my answer.

Mass media means that suddenly radio and newspapers went out to really large numbers of people. A lot of this change was to do with technology improvements in the first world war. The short version is that radio meant that the same people would be heard singing or playing sports all over the country for the first time. Media was suddenly able to react a mass of people.

Likewise mass production. Instead of a few people making a product slowly in a workshop production lines in factories were able to churn identical products out in greater numbers and for cheaper prices. This applied to cars, radios, books, newspapers, copies of films and bootleg liquor. And of course much more besides.

Organised crime – think crime meets the factory mentality and organisation. This was new too in the 1920s.

Celebrity. Mass media (especially film, radio and newspaper) meant that people all over knew who you were and suddenly you could be famous and valuable around the country and around the globe. This just wasn’t the case much before this. Prior to this period only kings, queens and heads of countries were really famous. But all of a suddenly this mass media meant that singers, sportsman, movie stars and gangsters could be and would be known all over the shop.

So these are some of the trends. I was you to explain how your chosen person demonstrates one or some of these trends in the 1920s.

Hopefully this helps.