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glen donnar

TED: Ideas worth spreading - 0 views

shared by glen donnar on 21 Jul 09 - Cached
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    TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is an invitation-only event where the world's leading thinkers and doers gather to find inspiration. Initially an annual conference, the scope of TED has expanded to include a bi-annual global conference, a humanitarian prize, and free audio/video podcasts of extraordinary talks.
Yair Frid

YouTube - Whopper Virgin Documentary (Full) - 0 views

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    Very interesting small documentary.
Christoph Zed

BBC NEWS | Technology | Europe's net refuseniks revealed - 0 views

  • more than one in four Europeans had never used a PC
  • People above the age of 65 and the unemployed were the least active online
  • Nearly 70% of people under the age of 24 use the internet every day, compared to the EU average of 43%. But this same group is reluctant to pay to download or use online content, such as music or video, with 33% saying that they would not pay anything at all.
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  • make access to digital content an easy and fair game
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    I wonder how the east-west divide impacts this, keeping the expansion to eastern European countries in the last few years in mind.
Wye Keen Wong

Notes & Neurons | World Science Festival - 0 views

  • Is our response to music hard-wired or culturally determined? Is the reaction to rhythm and melody universal or influenced by environment?
  • cross cultural demonstrations
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    "If music be the food of life"... can it help with our discussion of international culture & communication? An incredibly interesting science festival that considers music and it's place in human reactions.
xinning ji

Japanese pop culture isn't lost in translation - 0 views

  • If you have had any exposure to adolescent or teenage girls over the past decade, then you are all too familiar with the phenomenon known as Hello Kitty, the mouthless cartoon cat that decorates the paraphernalia (usually done in garish pink) that has made Tokyo-based parent Sanrio Co. Ltd. an 83-billion-yen-a-year company (about $795 million).
  • Why would Japanese cartoon characters appeal to American youth? Why stuff that is, to put it mildly and to use an American expression, cheesy?
  • What allows some products or concepts to travel around the world, while others can't get out of the house?
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      the success of Japanese products is because they know what people like, what is the common ground of people around the world, and these products are really entertained, such as Hello Kitty, Ben 10, etc. Rather, these characters are well connected between Western and Asian social and cultural values. SO, they are global symbols.
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  • "In its imagery and style, derived from video games and comic art, Japanese culture seemed to ride the wave of postmodernism ahead of its American counterparts, It seemed 'foreign' and strange, which was part of its appeal."
  • The logical conclusion is that there is little logic to it, so marketers will have to keep trying the hit-or-miss approach, even for the most outlandish ideas.
Lucy Rechnitzer

Students to dump textbooks for e-books - 0 views

  • Students to dump textbooks for e-books Carmel EganAugust 16, 2009 HEAVY book-filled school bags could soon be a thing of the past, with the e-book industry claiming most of students' textbooks will be contained in light hand-held portable devices within three years. The internet-linked reading devices will store hundreds of e-textbooks bought online or borrowed from school libraries. ''E-textbooks will be mainstream within three years,'' the executive director of DA Direct, Australia's largest distributor of portable reading devices and e-books, Richard Siegersma, predicted. Mr Siegersma said digital technology would lead to the costs of e-textbooks falling in a year to 18 months. ''There will be just-in-time and customised delivery to flexible, full-colour screens; textbooks with audio and video components; touch screens for handwriting and margin note-taking and text highlighting,'' he said.
  • HEAVY book-filled school bags could soon be a thing of the past, with the e-book industry claiming most of students' textbooks will be contained in light hand-held portable devices within three years.
  • ''E-textbooks will be mainstream within three years,''
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  • ''Book culture is still confused with print culture and it is really only this year people have started to get e-books.''
  • At the selective boys' secondary Melbourne High School, students were not persuaded by the new technology. While enjoying e-book mobility and easy access to multiple titles, they complained of slow data uploading, slow page-turning and too few titles available free.
anonymous

Aids ist ein Massenmörder: Campaign - 0 views

shared by anonymous on 08 Sep 09 - Cached
  • The "AIDS is a mass murderer" TV and cinema advert
  • The new campaign, designed by Regenbogen e.V. in conjunction with the advertising agency das comitee, speaks in clear terms: its slogan is "AIDS is a mass murderer". It features the greatest mass murderers in recent history having sex. TWITTER PROFIL 
  • The "Adolf" poster The "Saddam" poster The "Stalin" poster
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    Content Warning: Male and Female Nudity. The Germany made "Aids is a mass murderer" campaign has caused quite some stir, interestingly more outside of Germany than in Germany. It not only depicts Hitler, but also Saddam and Stalin in a poster AD campaign, as well as (very graphic) video. The controversy around the campaign raises a few questions, in regards to contemporary understanding of the holocaust (and other brutal mass-murdering regimes), ethics and contemporary sexual behaviour as well as acceptance depiction of sexual imagery in popular media and advertisement.
Maria D'Amato

Aussies call an end to just phoning on mobiles - 0 views

  • Using mobiles for just calls and texting is a thing of the past, as a third of Australians now check emails on their handsets and more than 70 per cent access mobile entertainment and information services.
  • In spite of the global financial crisis, the use of mobile phone services has continued to grow in the past year as more Australians buy internet-enabled smartphones, the 2009 Australian Mobile Phone Lifestyle Index reveals.
  • In last year's survey, just 7 per cent of respondents accessed social networking sites from their handsets, but this figure has jumped this year to 32 per cent, with half of those accessing the sites daily.
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  • General web browsing is also on the rise, with 21 per cent of respondents visiting websites on their mobile phones at least once a day.
  • Half of Australians used or bought entertainment services on their mobiles at least once a month, with games, ringtones and music downloads the three most popular categories.
  • Accessing the web, video, music and information on mobile phones was now well and truly mainstream.
  • The survey showed mobile phone service use was now "a commodity as opposed to a luxury for many Australians".
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