Indexicality

The Future of On-line Journalism Interactivity is what most separates on line news from traditional news. Indexicality (using hypertext links) is an important aspect of on-line journalism because it frees up space and time for the reader. People can explore international news and easily access the latest stories before the papers get to print, all at the click of a mouse. Many studies have been done on how people use web services. One of the major characteristics of such use is searching

Barthes, Camera Lucida. The author tells us that paintings are powerful in that they can reproduce fictional representations; they can portray that which is not there. However, it is the photographic image that contains genuine power because of its indexicality, that is, the viewer always connects the image to the notion that “the thing has been there”

Since the very first actualities from the Lumière brothers and the fantastical shorts of Maries Georges Jean Méliès, cinema has continually fulfilled its fundamental purpose of artistic reflection on societal contexts throughout the evolution of film. Two French cinematic movements, Poetic Realism (1934-1940) and French New Wave (1950-1970), serve as historical bookends to World War II, one of the most traumatic events in world history. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939) is a classic example

I watched the nightly news with Lester Holt on NBC for five consecutive nights. I started watching on October 19, 2015 and watched through October 23, 2015. The five days that I watched, Lester Holt was there every day in his suit and tie. However, he hardly talks about any of the news stories. He introduces a topic and lets a correspondent tell the story. If Lester presents a story, it is short and takes a minute or less to tell. The nightly news is filmed at the NBC News headquarters in New York

Throughout the animation history, people have been constantly striving to achieve perfect realism. Walt Disney’s Snow white and the seven dwarfs (1937) is one of the earliest attempts in capturing realism and achieving the ‘life like’, introducing new techniques such as roto-scoping in characters and multiplane cameras to create 3 dimensional depth. Therefore there are many flaws regarding techniques, style and narrative despite how much effort and care was put into its making. The scenes when snow

1. For my television commercial I used the popular Sham wow infomercial. According to the site the Sham Wow is “a washcloth, which will dry, and polish any surface. They are like a towel, chamois, and sponge all in one--except they're extremely absorbent and can be used over and over.” However, a segment on ABC’s Good Morning America gives Sham Wow a “C” and says it’s a normal towel so why have so many Americans fallen for the gimmick? The art of persuasion plays a big role in

1. “Imagined communities,” according to Anderson, are a form of speech communities created by the mass-production of shared media. They are “imagined” because members will never meet all other members face-to-face. The Morgan piece on speech communities begins by describing a music video, which itself begins with two rappers speaking on the phone in different languages in different countries. After a conversation, the two meet-up in person and begin the song. Morgan describes this as a speech

Cartoons, or as some scholars call caricatures, are metaphorical codification of humor through which cartoonists express their thoughts and opinions by commenting on specific contemporary social and political issues. Attardo and Chabnne (1992) define cartoons as a joke that involve a mixed-code message where humor exists in the lines uttered by the characters. In fact, cartoons have always been seen as a work of art where linguistic and non-linguistic resources are used effectively in a humorous

Now that I have gone through all of the cards I will go back through them all to make sure I don’t have any over lapping categories. First of all while I was thinking of categories and readying the cards I realized that what was on the card I started reflecting it on my own life. For example, some of the cards taking about cleaning the house and then I thought I need to it too. I started to agree with these cards so that they made sense in my own life and that they were like my own thoughts. They

In my Norm Violation assignment I chose to break the common dining etiquette norm of eating with your hands. Since eating with your hands is only deviant behavior in certain dining situations, I chose to break this norm at a local sit-down restaurant in Eugene, Café Soriah. I went to the downtown restaurant with a group of friends for an afternoon meal without telling them of my Norm Violation assignment. Being the only informed one in the experiment seemed like the best way to get the most candid