social media had an enormous impact on the fate of the bill. Demonstrations were held all over Europe, Twitter and other social media were used to contact, support and encourage the MEPs to vote against ACTA.
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7 Simple Ways to Make a Good Story Great - 0 views
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This article touches on several ways to take a story from good to great including engaging all of the readers/listeners senses, writing at your own level, and tapping into the emotions of your audience. All seven tactics can be used in all kinds of writing and would be especially helpful in the world of narratives as they would help the audience feel immersed in what they are reading of listening to.
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The (Imperfect) Perfect Job Interview - 1 views
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Jeff Stibel delivers his insight on what he thinks the perfect job interview is. He discusses the fact that the traditional question-answer method does not allow a candidate to showcase themselves, but rather puts them in a box. He says recruiters should look for a person who can tell their story; a story that reaches beyond the summary of details that is found in a resume. Key takeaway: Although every job interview is going to involve some staple questions, prepare to tell your own story; why the experience you have on your resume has supported the experience you have as a candidate.
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New tools for new movements: Using social media for civil good - 0 views
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Thus, this is just one side of the story: through new and social media, activists and NGOs can directly reach their audience, supporting and sometimes even replacing traditional media as information source.
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“Take the ‘occupy movements’, for example: they used Twitter as a main means to spread the word and report real-time what is happening in the field, they used livestream channels to broadcast from the protests and tell a different perspective from TVs and newspapers. Occupy folks used blogs to tell in-depth stories from the field, photos to document and illustrate the stories, and podcasting to make the voice of the protesters heard and to amplify the message.”
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Smartphones, the Internet, the new media and the social networks are excellent means to help every citizen to run stories from the field, documenting cases and share them widely with audience through blogs and social networks.
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An important exception to this has been, in recent years, the rise of the Italian Five Star Movement. In origin a simple association of different groups of local activists coalesced around beppegrillo.it, a blog founded by former comedian Beppe Grillo, the movement quickly grew into becoming one of the main forces of the Italian political arena. Its disruptive political agenda, together with the charisma of Beppe Grillo, explains this quick rise to prominence.
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Audio story section - 0 views
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This link refers to a bunch of audio story telling recording of different individuals. By listening to a few if them, you will be able to get a feel of how an individual can bring life to whatever they are talking about with the use of different voices and tone if voice. Also, the use if pauses and sounds are meaningful in some cases. This link greatly helps an individual with making their own narrative story, as we had to do in the begging of the semester.
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The Good, the Bad, and the Downright Ugly of Parallax Web Design - 0 views
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Parallax is the web design technique of using CSS to make different layers on the web page move at different rates. So, when scrolling down the page, instead of having all the text, photos, videos, and other elements move screen altogether, it feels more like a visual page turn, with a new layer of beautiful imagery or video or a pull quote gliding up to replace the just read "page."
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Take last month's Fast Company story about Baratunde Thurston quitting the Internet for 25 days. Toward the bottom of the page, the designers used parallax to make leaves and flowers bloom onto the page. Unless your browser window is extremely wide, the details ended up covering the text, however, making it difficult to read the story:
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"It's getting a little overused everywhere," Trei Brundrett, the chief product officer for Vox Media, which owns SB Nation, The Verge, and Polygon, told us. The makers of "Snow Fall" and the other parallax pioneers who have used it made it the defining feature of thoughtful web design. "It's a signifier of quality. It has become a trope,"
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The low barrier to entry means, a lot of the times the effect doesn't add much to the story. "I think it's cool if used appropriately or in moderation," said Brundrett. A good use, he says, would be to "cleverly position" photography next to supporting copy
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Unfortunately, that means it has gotten very tired, very fast. The Pitchfork team sees the whole trend winding down in the next year or two. "I think people will start to use it a lot more and possibly tire of it," said Renaud.
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"Designers are excited that there is a lot of energy and curiosity around more thoughtful design and breaking out of our optimized content world," added Brundrett.
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Main Film Genres - 0 views
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serious, plot-driven presentations, portraying realistic characters, settings, life situations, and stories involving intense character development and interaction
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dramas, historical dramas, war films, medieval romps, or 'period pictures' that often cover a large expanse of time set against a vast, panoramic backdrop
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frighten and to invoke our hidden worst fears, often in a terrifying, shocking finale, while captivating and entertaining us at the same time
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Musical/dance films are cinematic forms that emphasize full-scale scores or song and dance routines in a significant way
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They are sometimes an offshoot of fantasy films (or superhero films), or they share some similarities with action/adventure films
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easily evaluate a film within its genre and allow for meaningful comparisons and some judgments on greatness
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This webpage relates to our earlier discussion about genre theory which depicted some forms of media are more prone to fit into a particular genre label. More so this page outlines the main types of genres in film which could be helpful for the media episodes project, in order to help identify an appropriate audience and content per the given episode content.
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NARRATIVE IN THE MEDIA - 0 views
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certain codes to generate or control the flow of suspense, to provide setting, to engage the viewer's attention, to reveal character, or to further the plot
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characters are involved, what the narrative is about (themes, values and issues), its pleasures and effects on the viewer or listener
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This study on narrative in media informs us on how narrative is very evident in media today. Not only do we use the form in literary works, but narrative (hand in hand with genre) work in media. For example, in the news, it is presented in order of first: the credibility of news, then presenting the current issue at hand, and finally an explanation of the resolution or following matter. This is applied in all forms of media.
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Will You Go Viral? Here's A Way To Predict - 0 views
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Roadblock Effectsimulates everyone talking about your story at the same time to the point where you can’t get past it.
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The Stagger Effect doesn’t require such intense coordination. It still creates the same illusion that everyone is talking about you, but it is accomplished in a (you guessed it) staggered manner.
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Is there a way of predicting if content will go viral? This article, published by Forbes magazine, written by Roger Wu, attributes the viral success of a certain types of media such as videos, images and sound clips into two categories: the "Roadblock Effect" or the "Stagger Effect." Wu explains that viral content can be divided into these two categories and can therefore be used to determine whether or not content will go viral.