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Alexander Campbell as Hans Peter in Peter Wright’s production of The Nutcracker. The Royal Ballet 2015
Steven McRae as The Prince and Iana Salenko as the Sugar Plum Fairy in Peter Wright’s production of The Nutcracker. The Royal Ballet 2015
Steven McRae as The Prince and Iana Salenko as the Sugar Plum Fairy in Peter Wright’s production of The Nutcracker. The Royal Ballet 2015
Nicol Edmonds as The Mouse King in Peter Wright’s production of The Nutcracker. The Royal Ballet 2015
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Arch. Building Design Partnership, 2006, GBP18M. At the University of East London's Docklands Campus, facing the Royal Albert Dock. London Borough of Newham.
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The advert uses signs and objects to portray its message. This is done through iconic, indexical and symbolic signs. The iconic signs in this advert are the phone as this is what is being advertised. The background image is indexical as the city represents a busy lifestyle which is backed up with the word ‘chaos’ at the top. The image of the hand is also indexical as the writing on the hand reads ‘buy palm’ which connects to the message of the advert. The symbolic signs within the advert are the colour scheme of the strip along the bottom and the palm logo. The logo represents the phone company. The fact that the word ‘organize’ and the logo ‘palm’ are both orange gives a relationship between the two i.e. palm phones will organize your life.
The advert denotes that the phone is good and orderly and that the city is chaotic. The connotations suggest that without the phone your life will be chaotic and busy and with it your life will be simple and orderly. In addition to this, the advert creates the myth that if everyone has this particular phone their lives will be orderly and organized.
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Propaganda, like theories of media effects, is often thought of in the negative. Propaganda is seen to work on the weak in support of the interests of the already powerful, where power derives from the economic sphere, the nation or elsewhere. The historical association of propaganda with wartime and totalitarian regimes also attests to this impression. Nonetheless, there are examples where propagandist actions seem to be positively conceived and received, depending in part upon who is deemed to be producing the propaganda.
An interesting example of what has been called a positive propagandist organ can be found in ‘Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’.
Free Europe, Inc., was established in 1949 as nonprofit, private corporation to broadcast news and current-affairs programs to Eastern European countries behind the Iron Curtain.
Currently, RFE/RL's 18 services broadcast programs in the following 28 languages: Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Avar, Azeri, Bashkir, Belarusian, Bosnian, Chechen, Circassian, Crimean Tatar, Croatian, Dari, Georgian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Montenegrin, Pashto, Persian, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Tajik, Tatar, Turkmen, Ukrainian, and Uzbek.
It might be difficult to question the aim of broadcasting current affairs programmes unfettered by obvious controls and censorship into societies with largely undemocratic and often repressive systems.
‘Surveillance’ refers to the use of media in order to satisfy a need for knowledge – to comprehend what is going on in the world around audience members – ‘us’. On the one hand, this need for knowledge can be satisfied by the consumption of current affairs and actuality media forms – newspapers, news bulletins, documentaries and so on. This has important bearing upon the function of media as a ‘fourth estate’, in relation to the status of audiences as political citizens in need of insight and guidance on the maintenance of society.
On the other hand, in order to be a social animal nowadays, we might need to know about media as an object of discussion – just to be able to communicate with other people during those ‘water cooler’ moments at work for instance.
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‘Personal identity’ refers to the way in which media play a part in defining us. Issues of taste come into play here – how our choices reflect our preferences for information, pleasure and so on but also, in turn, reinforce our sense of who we are. For instance, we may consider the kinds of people presented to us in factual and fictional media forms, judging and defining ourselves in relation to them. Critics play a part here, too, as do notions of media personalities as ‘role models’.
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The Learning Resources (Medical Library) of ETSU's Quillen College of Medicine is shown in this undated image.
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The affect on the consumer is to associate Lynx deodorant with a heightened sense of masculinity and sexual prowess. The relentless, almost frantic, insistence that the product embodies masculinity suggests that their campaign is designed to appeal chiefly to a more adolescent target audience.
The campaign affectively encompasses several rhetorical techniques. Alliteration is used in the slogan - “Pocket pulling power” - a catchy tagline which alludes to both the physical size of the product and its intended function.
Audiences approach media texts out of a purposeful desire to satisfy or ‘gratify’ necessary personal and social needs or, indeed, to ‘use’media for a variety of purposeful and rational ends within a comprehensible and explicable model of social activity. Exactly how and why this happens is one of the focal points of research in this area. A key theorist and proselytiser for this approach within mass communications traditions is McQuail, who summarises four categories for the uses and gratifications theory: surveillance, personal identity, personal relationships and diversion.
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In this advert gender is conveyed: the women is the dominant gender blowing away the man who is a countertype character- long hair, skinny body and his eyes covered. Eyes are used in magazines as anchorage for the reader to dismiss the gaze sets the agender that the female is in a powerful position, which isn’t societies' dominant ideology. The typography in ‘do the don’ts’ is a strong, bold type which was used in the era of English rebellion and punk, the gold chain on the bottle of perfume conveys this era, as well as the black dress. This is also counter typical as traditionally in perfume adverts, white can be seen to represent innocence and virginity.
The lipstick typography of ‘show off’ also reinforces that women should be confident and ready to get to their dreams without interference.
The CEO of Blackboard (Tim Chasen) presenting at the BBWorld 2012 conference in New Orleans. Data projection obvious: indeed, invented for large, set-piece keynote speeches like this. Note also use of humour :-)
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On 8th May 2009 UK newspaper The Telegraph began publishing leaked details of the expense claims of British MPs in advance of their official publication. Over the following days each edition of The Telegraph brought new revelations about the ways in which public money was being used to maintain the lifestyle of politicians (e.g. pay off mortgages).
The story vividly demonstrates the power that the various media have to shape and influence the British political agenda. In fact, during May and June 2009, The Telegraph was completely in control of the political agenda as every other news story including the economic crisis and casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan played second fiddle to the unfolding drama in Westminster.
Looking at this story in a positive light, there is evidence of the print media functioning as the ‘fourth estate’ holding those who hold political power to account for their actions.From a more critical perspective it’s possible to argue that this kind of inquisitorial journalism is designed to provoke outrage in the public and in so doing creates a cynicism about the motivations of politicians and about the political process itself. Finally, we should also be mindful that the news and political agenda were seized by a media organization that acts for financial gain. Circulation for The Telegraph rose in the region of 100,000 copies as a result of this story.
Classroom at the National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen. I should have a classroom like this, it looks like the War Room in 'Dr Strangelove'.
The Master of Disaster program is a three-module learning resource available in both English and French, designed to help Grade 6 students learn about emergency preparedness from a proactive and interactive all-hazards perspective.
Minister of State for Emergency Preparedness Naomi Yamamoto announced the program at Queen Mary school in North Vancouver.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2016TRAN0308-002005
The main quadrangle at the University of Alabama. Anyone who has been to a major US college campus knows they are invariably very beautiful places. The quality of the physical environment around us is just as much a learning resource as its specific facilities (see also the Oxbridge college).
Devon County Council's Learning Gallery - full of resources including DVDs, books and access to their DLE.
My wife Clare and son Joe. The family is the most informal - but simultaneously the most essential - learning environment of all, which we enter literally from the first moment of life.