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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: 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: 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: 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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Issues in Publication and Design: Web television: Lonelygirl15 stranger than fact?
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Sunday, June 14, 2009. Web television: Lonelygirl15 stranger than fact? Out with the old, in with the new they say. The ever growing popularity of the internet has created a paradigm shift from your everyday programs on television to an all new online version, known as web television. Hence, the pertinent question that arises is: are new media technologies actually blurring the audience's sense of reality? And if so, is that ethical? Therefore, once the thrill of the new media bandwagon finally settles, ...
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Issues in Publication and Design: Tempos' Last Supper blunder...
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Monday, June 15, 2009. Tempos' Last Supper blunder. The Christian community in Indonesia can be forgiven for never wanting to buy a copy of Tempos magazine again. Apparently one of its bright ideas backfired and left Christians fuming. The issue in question is the magazine's depiction of former president Suharto and his children in an image mimicking Leonardo Da Vinci's Last Supper painting. The edition was published in February 2008 as a tribute to Suharto, who had died recently. Mimic of Last S. Walsh'...
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Issues in Publication and Design: Emoticons: writing like you talk...
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Monday, June 15, 2009. Emoticons: writing like you talk. Putnis and Petelin (1996) once argued that writing and talking were totally different in nature, and suggested that writing was harder than talking since gestures and facial cues were absent. This is not the case anymore. The invention of emoticons has allowed people to include expressions in their writings which convey the mood of the writer. The emoticon concept was introduced by Scott Fahlman in 1982 (. The emoticon is undeniably an effective co...
