Category - Academic

Green Paper CSR

The Green Paper aims to launch a wide debate and seek views on corporate social responsibility at European and international levels. The Commission is concerned in raising the standards of social development, environmental protection, and social rights… and hopes that the outcome of this initiative will be a new framework for the promotion...

Lebanese DSL Ads

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...

Humanistic Photography

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

Visual Journalism: Reading the Redesigns Visual journalism, or the “ability to project a news story through image and design”, 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...

Getty Images

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...

Visual Racism

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

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:  Tales say that the V sign was originally derived...