This is a brief iPad case study that shows how the iPad first became successful. It’s all in the marketing. When the iPad first came out, I remember it got some negative reviews. People were calling it “the most useless product of the year”, and were asking “what the hell is it used for?”. Back then, I personally...
Send Secure is a mobile app that protects your SMS privacy. Did you know that you can actually prevent governments and hackers from spying on your SMS conversations? Yes, you can actually do that by using an app called Send Secure. Send Secure encrypts or codes your SMS messages so that only your intended receiver can properly view them...
Racial Stereotypes in GTA San Andreas Grand Theft Auto San Andreas (a.k.a. GTA SA) is a 3D action/adventure video game by Rockstar Games. The game was released in 2004, and quickly became one of the most popular and best selling video games ever. The game’s storyline is that the player, Carl Johnson (a.k.a. CJ), an African American young...
The Use of Technology to Prevent Corruption in Lebanon (Note: this article is taken from:Â ) Intro How many times have you orderly waited in a queue to see someone surpass the line and take someone else’s turn? How many times have you heard that someone was offered a bribe and accepted it? How many times have you noticed that government...
Lebanese Night Traffic DSL Ads Comparison: Terranet, Cyberia, IDM Recently, we have noticed several different new ads for the new ADSL services in Lebanon, and each ad takes a different advertising approach. The first of the DSL ads we’re featuring is for the Terranet company, which has recently launched a new service of ADSL high...
Elements of the Humanistic Paradigm Summary After the 2nd world war, a phase of reconstruction and cleansing started inFrance. Some French magazines wanted to focus on human aspects rather than post war analysis. Photographers were asked to take pictures documenting humanistic daily life scenes of typical French people, of the “classe...
Visual Journalism: Reading the Redesigns Visual journalism, or the “ability to project a news story through image and designâ€, is becoming a very important compliment to the written part in journalism. Just like certain words are critically chosen when writing an article, visual elements like images, fonts, and layout should also be...
Building the World’s Visual Language: The Increasing Global Importance of Image Banks in Corporate Media The article discusses how images of image banks such as Getty Images are somewhat symbolic and represent intangible concepts instead of being descriptive and informative. The article first gives a brief history of the image industry...
The article discusses methods for analyzing how people are represented in images. Through these methods the article recognizes and gives examples of several means of visual racism. The article first says that images need words to anchor their meaning. Words give images their intended context. Words however, can sometimes be racist, and the...
Hand gestures have always been used in political propaganda as a way to emphasize a certain message or as a way to grab attention and directly communicate with viewers on a more personal level. Let’s take a look at some hand gestures used in political propaganda… The Victory Sign:Â Tales say that the V sign was originally derived...