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Issues in Publication and Design: New media and new politics: Obama's use of the iPhone...
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Monday, June 15, 2009. New media and new politics: Obama's use of the iPhone. It seems that the new media has other significant purposes apart from entertainment. Just ask Barack Obama. The US President is probably the first to revolutionize the application of new media as a political tool during his campaign last year, a crucial step that all but handed him the presidency. Barack Obama and the iPhone. Tactic which expanded his outreach (Sheils 2008). The application also ensured that the privacy of ...
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Issues in Publication and Design: Recapping a productive run...
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Monday, June 15, 2009. Recapping a productive run. As I look back on this semester, I am proud to say that I have learnt a lot from Issues in Publication and Design, although I will probably never again look at documents or compositions without having the need to scrutinize and criticize every little aspect I see. But that is probably a good thing and I have IPD to thank. Putnis, P and Petelin, R 1996, Professional communication: principles and applications. Prentice Hall, Sydney. View my complete profile.
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Issues in Publication and Design: April 2009
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Wednesday, April 8, 2009. The image above is taken from my group present. Now here's an improvisation in my individual presentation. The colour combination of the text complements the background colour. There is also balance between visuals and texts, which Walsh (2006) describes as essential in the interpretation of multimodal texts. Also, there is a significant difference in font sizes, whereby the title has larger font sizes to give more salience. Kress, G and van Leeuwen, T 2006,. A peek into today's...
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Issues in Publication and Design: June 2009
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Monday, June 15, 2009. Recapping a productive run. As I look back on this semester, I am proud to say that I have learnt a lot from Issues in Publication and Design, although I will probably never again look at documents or compositions without having the need to scrutinize and criticize every little aspect I see. But that is probably a good thing and I have IPD to thank. Putnis, P and Petelin, R 1996, Professional communication: principles and applications. Prentice Hall, Sydney. The new media I speak o...
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Issues in Publication and Design: You blog. I blog. We all blog
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Saturday, June 13, 2009. You blog. I blog. We all blog. Gone are the days when we relied solely upon the select few to provide us with information, entertain our thoughts or influence our actions. Then again, never has our zest for such things and the ease of its accesibility been as prevalent as it is today. Enter the blogging world, an interface where thoughts are read and expressed, treating Us with the latest by Us. Technorati Inc 2008, State of the blogosphere 2008. Viewed 13 June 2009. 2nd Sem of U...
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Issues in Publication and Design: To Change Or Not To Change? Facebook's Interface Controversy
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Issues in Publication and Design. Tuesday, June 9, 2009. To Change Or Not To Change? Never change a winning formula. Perhaps someone should have told Facebook that before the popular social networking website received a barrage of complains from some sections of the 100 million user-strong community following the full-launch of the new-look Facebook in September 2008. Facebook's old interface (left) versus its new interface (right). We don't look at this through the lens of messing with something that wo...
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Issues in Publication and Design: 'The Last Supper' The Last Straw for Christians?
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Issues in Publication and Design. Thursday, June 11, 2009. The Last Supper' The Last Straw for Christians? Magazine suffered a backlash when its February issue cover depicted former president Suharto and his children in a composition mimicking Leonardo Da Vinci's masterpiece "The Last Supper" (ABC News 2008). The "Tempo" magazine cover (top) and the Leonard da Vince masterpiece. Source: www.indonesiamatters.com. The editors at Tempo. Magazine obviously did not take the religious and cultural context into...
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Issues in Publication and Design: Copyright issues: Rowling vs. Vander Ark
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Monday, June 15, 2009. Identifying and granting ownershi. P of a given piece of expression. The villain: Steven Vander Ark's HP Lexicon. The said issue occurred in September last year. Opaedia ( CBS News. 2008) Rowling won the court battle and as a result, both Vander Ark and his publisher, RDR Books were forced to discontinue efforts towards publishing the book. 2008) So where does one draw the line, seriously? Baran, SJ 2006, Introduction to mass communication: media literacy and culture. Web televisio...
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Musings of a Creative Mind: Emoticons and Email Etiquette :-)
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Musings of a Creative Mind. Monday, June 15, 2009. Emoticons and Email Etiquette :-). The advent of the internet, e-mails or electronic mails have become the chosen mode of communication when it comes to our modern day correspondence. According to Wisegeek.com (2009), e-mail is simply a protocol for receiving, sending and storing electronic messages. Some of the well-known email service providers. (Source: Google images). According to ABC.net (2007), Scott Fahlman invented the emoticons as a visual a...
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Issues in Publication & Design: :O + :) + :S + :( = ?
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Issues in Publication and Design. Monday, June 15, 2009. O :) :S :( =? Puzzled by the subject title? Don't be. They are emoticons, the new wave of communication aiders. They came into existence when Scott Fahlman invented the sideways smiley face to accompany his online jokes in 1997 (ABC 2007). Source: www.icons-land.com 2009). Since then, they have evolved from simple symbols to sophisticated graphics depicting every emotion imaginable. Emoticons and e-mail etiquette'. Viewed 18 October 2007. Kress, G ...
