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Shal's Guide to Design Theory: Traditional vs New: Which is Better?

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Shal's Guide to Design Theory. Traditional vs New: Which is Better? The traditional concept of a journalist is undergoing a radical change. The emergence of new technology such as Web 2.0, has allowed for a more participatory form of journalism. As it is now called, has opened up the information world and everyone is having a say in it. Here we can see how new forms of media publishing is changing our perspectives of news coverage. Outing, S 2005, Taking Tsunami Coverage into Their Own Hands,. Designed b...

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Shal's Guide to Design Theory: Censoring the Internet!

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Shal's Guide to Design Theory. The Malaysian mainstream media has often been viewed as deeply regimental and tightly controlled. This has been a main reason for the rapid rise of alternative media; specifically independent news portals. As the government has pledged not to cencor the Internet, many Malaysians are taking this oppurtunity to expose issues that normally would not be reported by the mainstream media. one such issue was the recent 'cow head' protest. Article 10 of the Federal Constitution sta...

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Shal's Guide to Design Theory: Purpose

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Shal's Guide to Design Theory. This blog will discuss media issues with particular emphasis on the issues of publication and design. This encompasses the elements needed to create a good document design as well as some mistakes that should be avoided. This blog hopes to reach readers who want to learn in-depth about document design as well as encourage professional and academics to contribute their ideas and thoughts to this subject matter. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.

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Shal's Guide to Design Theory: Classifying Blogs

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Shal's Guide to Design Theory. There are many different types of blogs that discuss a variety of issues. As such, there are a variety of ways to the classify blogs. Simons. 2008) suggests that there are 9 ways to classify blogs. Here are some examples of ways to classify blogs:. Source: fashion-plate.blogspot.com. Source: This Twisted Histor. Source: It's the Environment St. Source: A Whiff of Lemongrass. 2 By Devices and Media Types:. Exclusively videos with text used only for. Viewed 17 November 2009,.

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Shal's Guide to Design Theory: 09/03/09

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Shal's Guide to Design Theory. I must say that having spent almost 10 years surfing through the. Internet) as well as 3 years having to read academic texts, I have come across various types of document designs that go across the scale from. All the way to. More often than not, scholastic texts have bored me to tears while certain web pages can always hold my attention. After having done some research on this issue, here are some of the reasons why there are discrepancies between the two mediums. This is ...

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Shal's Guide to Design Theory: Print & Online: What's the Difference?

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Shal's Guide to Design Theory. Print and Online: What's the Difference? Designing for print and online publications differ in a variety of ways. This is because both these mediums cater to different set of audiences and their expectencies and must therefore employ different strategies in their design principles. To further explain this issue, I will use both the print and online versions of The Economist. Kress, G and van Leeuwen, T 1998, ‘Front pages: (the critical) analysis of newspaper layout&#8...

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Shal's Guide to Design Theory: Suharto's Controversy

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Shal's Guide to Design Theory. On the 10th of February 2008, Tempo Magazine, Indonesia’s leading weekly magazine, published its issue depicting former President Suharto and his family mimicking Leonardo da Vinci’s painting of the Last Supper. The cover was initially created as a tribute to the President who had recently passed on. There are 3 key elements which were found when analyzing this issue: informational value, salience and framing (Kress and van Leeuwen 2006). The concept of given and new ca...

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Shal's Guide to Design Theory: 11/18/09

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Shal's Guide to Design Theory. The world of blogging was one I had never ventured into. Initially there were some technical aspects that goaded my patience. Nevertheless, I eventually got the hang of the basic tools and functions of Blogger. On a final note, the act of blogging was an interesting experience and one that I will continue to do. Keeping up with Technology. 2009) Some of the malicious remarks included "history of dealing cocaine" and because of this, her Twitter feed is now discontinued.

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Shal's Guide to Design Theory: Building Your Own Community!

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Shal's Guide to Design Theory. Building Your Own Community! 2006) defined blogging communities as online communities that exist to connect people to blogs and bloggers to other bloggers. These communities are formed by people of similar interests joining together to share their passions. Some examples of these communities are Spill.com. 2006), blogging communities are created through comments left at blogs, hyperlinks connecting the blogs to other sites and shared language. Kirkpatrick. Http:/ blog.j...

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Shal's Guide to Design Theory: The Blogging Trend

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Shal's Guide to Design Theory. Blogs are web-based platforms for authors to express their thoughts and opinions on any subject matter that is of interest to them. Although blogs have existed since the mid-90s, it is only recently that the blogging phenomenon has exploded to the size it is today ( Blood. 2000) So much so that it is getting increasingly difficult to pinpoint the exact number and types of blogs that now exist. However, sites like Technorati make an attempt to do so. Asia - 24.35 million.