Critical Research

ok, its been AAAAAGES since i last posted lol

for my critical research i have chosen advertising as my topic. originally i planned to focus on how advertising in the media, focusing on the fashion industry, affects women's body image, but now, after reading an interesting article which sparked my imagination, im thinking of focusing on the censoring of advertising -
> why certain things are censored where others arent,
> how far advertisers can go in order to promote whatever they are promoting without crossing the line,
> how advertisers use shock tactics to appeal to their audience,
> whether censoring and restrictions on content hinder the creativity of people who create adverts or encourage it
> how as an audience the public has developed over the years - things acceptable in advertising now would have caused outrage 30 years ago

this is only an initial idea and is subject to change over the next week or so, depending on what my initial research tells me.

x Sylvia

social networking gets creepy

paving the way for internet stalkers is new functions on social networking websites allowing a users position to be tracked by satellite.
[full story]

thats just too far in my opinion.

- sylvia

facebook search for criminals

law enforcement; another example of social networking, an important part of web 2.0 being put to use beyond its original intentional use [click for full article]

yeah, web 2.0 is taking over...

- sylvia

libaries join web 2.0

an article on the guardian website regarding web 2.0 technology talks about how the ideas behind social networking are spreading to other areas in order to make information more accessible to people.

By embracing the interactive, user-generated world of web 2.0, libraries can ensure they keep pace with bold new ways of learning

click for full article

x sylviaaa

Web 2.0

as defined in wikipedia;
Web 2.0 is a trend in World Wide Web technology, and web design, a second generation of web-based communities and hosted services such as social-networking sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies, which aim to facilitate creativity, collaboration, and sharing among users.
basically, web 2.0 is how the internet is developing, to accommodate more user-generated content. social networking sites, where a user can edit their profile to represent themselves, whilst interacting with others, such as myspace, is a prime example of web 2.0 technology.
although web 2.0, a term coined by O'Reilly media, is not so much a technology as an idea behind the technology, it is a rapidly expanding aspect of the internet.

more to come =]

x sylvia

film studies banner!

more photoshop grooviness, this time for film studies!
<3 films!
ahhh, i do love captain jack!

=]

flux magazine

an interesting article on one of the magazines we are focusing our research on, which is likely to be our main competetor in the market.
clicky link!

x sylvia