ABC online : a vortal for new opportunities?

This article undertakes an analysis of the ABCs website, ABC Online -- www. abc.net.au -- to explore how the public broadcaster uses the Internet to offer new services. While recognising that the ABC aims to enhance its traditional radio and television services using the Internet, the article establishes the extent to which ABC Online also provides innovative, original, and interactive new services, including those with no connection to traditional radio and television programs, as is often demanded by audiences. This article examines the capacity for ABC Online to develop a unique and distinctive role via the Internet through the potential to offer novel and interactive content and services.<br /

Plugged-in: 40 years of digital imaging

To create an interactive piece that will provide to the user a feel for the rapid development of digital imaging, the key players involved and its impact on the way we create visual media today. This interactive presentation will seek to establish how this new medium emerged from the collaboration of many creative minds in the scientific and art worlds

Annual Report Of Research and Creative Productions by Faculty and Staff from January to December, 2004.

Annual Report Of Research and Creative Productions by Faculty and Staff from January to December, 2004

Annual Report Of Research and Creative Productions by Faculty and Staff from January to December, 2005.

Annual Report Of Research and Creative Productions by Faculty and Staff from January to December, 2005

Salvation May Just Be a Click Away: A Case Study in the Impact of New Media Communications in the Evangelical Church in the Bible Belt

This was an exploratory qualitative case study into the usage of new media in the evangelical church within the context of the Bible Belt region of the United States. The problem with the current status of new media communications within the evangelical church is that some churches seem to struggle with using these mediums successfully. The purpose of this study was to gather information on how churches are using new media communications in their environment and equip churches with greater knowledge and tools on how to leverage new media communications to grow the Kingdom. This study features three main research questions that focus on the application of new media to church environments. The research team identified churches throughout the Bible Belt that would be considered successful and influential, and through a series of interviews with representatives of these organizations, examined and analyzed their new media communication efforts. The findings of this study point to new media being something very useful to churches as they attempt to grow and remain relevant in today’s society as well as identifying five key norms that churches use in their new media communications

Local policies for cultural diversity

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O caso da denison: design e computação gráfica; mutações recentes em comunicação

This work aims to call attention to recent changes in the field of visual communication, as a result of the expansion of computer technology. In order to do this, we began to trace a critical sight-seeing of visual communication, since Pré-Historic times. Then, we compared the developement of graphic design in Europe, USA and Brazil. We realized that the use of Computer Graphics Imagery, in many areas, is universal, what took us to consider carefully the increase of globalization in this world. We realized too, that the use of computer technology between designers, is widely spread and almost absolute. We compared the way of working of the graphic designer before the use of the computer, and now. We took, as an example, a publicity agency, in Rio de Janeiro, Denison Rio Comunicação de Marketing Ltda. Finally, we intend to show that this situation has no return.Este trabalho tem como finalidade chamar a atenção para as mudanças recentes ocorridas no campo da comunicação visual, decorrentes do uso, cada vez mais intenso, das técnicas de informática. Para isso começamos traçando um panorama crítico da comunicação desde os tempos Pré-históricos. Em seguida comparamos o desenvolvimento do design gráfico na Europa, USA e no Brasil. Constatamos que, atualmente, o uso da computação em muitas áreas de atuação humana é universal, o que nos levou a refletir sobre a crescente globalização mundial. No meio do design gráfico, o uso desta tecnologia reina absoluto. Comparamos o modo de trabalho do designer gráfico antes e depois do advento da computação gráfica, usando, como estudo de caso, uma agência de publicidade no Rio de Janeiro, a Denison Rio Comunicação de Marketing Ltda. Finalmente, pretendemos mostrar que tal estado de coisas é irreversível

The Profitable Purity of Robert Redford: Authenticity, Auteur Capital, and the Sundance Film Festival

This thesis, through the relationship between actor-director Robert Redford and the Sundance Film Festival, examines the dynamic between filmmakers and film festivals, and the effect the former can have on the latter's public perception. Scholarship on the ties between festivals and filmmakers has been limited, often using Pierre Bourdieu's concepts of field, capital, and habitus to focus on the festival's ability to imbue a director with legitimacy and capital. While this study also uses Bourdieu's theories as a foundation for understanding film festivals, it ultimately filters these concepts through a lens of star and auteur studies to look at the relationship the other way around: that is, how an auteur-star like Redford might affect a festival like Sundance, both economically and culturally. Through closely examining the constructed images of both Redford and Sundance, this study posits that the actor-director brings his prestige and legitimacy--that is, his auteur capital--to bear on the Festival, and therefore affects its public understanding, as well as its values, norms, and practices. Sundance is a bundle of contradictions, each of which points to a habitus of paradoxical beliefs in Redford, which, in turn, reflects and reinforces a dominant society built out of oppositional forces. By comprehending how the public vision of festivals like Sundance can be affected by the popular perception of auteur-stars like Redford, this thesis will further bring light to the economic, political, and cultural relationships and hierarchies at work in such events