Blood. Gore. Slaughter. Sadism. Drugs. Carnage. That is one frightening list of adjectives, especially to describe one thing. Good thing those are all just common stereotypes that are a gross exaggeration. I am referring to videogames of course. The truth is most videogames don't contain any of these traits. Many young gamers engage in titles such as Mario Kart, Grand Turismo, Little Big Planet, or Madden. None of these contain any content that would fit into the above categories. The...

As Keenoy et al note (1997), 'in these past-modern times (Stones, 1996), contemporary organizational analysis is confronted, if not confounded, by increasingly paradoxical, fluid and contradictrory account of organizational realities. Not only are modernist bureaycratic structures crumbling under pressure from the conjunctural crisis and virtual organizations emerging to provide virtual employment, but the materialist intellectual security once supplied by positivist epistemology appears to be...

The relationship between local and global has created a large amount of puzzlement in the recent discuss on globalization. It is commonly known that globalization is a strong power in both economy and politics. On the other hand, Herod (2002: 83) points out the importance of localization by persuading transnational corporations to "Organizing, Globally, Organizing Locally". Theories of globalization have been developed, Walker and Goldsmith (2001) finds out the connection between...

Games experience effectively eliminates any passive nature regarding users' involvement or role in the virtual environment. Games allow the users the complete and thorough interrogation of the rendered space. Giving full interrogation capability gives the participants a great chance to investigate more details and further areas of the space that might not have been possible to investigate in the regular walkthrough. Architects can benefit from this in design iteration and subsequent enhancement...

Nowadays, there is a recent debate which seems to continue existing for some more time: the fight between filter blogs and the traditional media. We have been witnessess of the failed intentions of the mass media for jumping into the Internet since they found out in 1998, due to the Bill Clinton scandal and the way it was run, how important Internet is. However, media has found some objections in this labour. One of them is that they have to deal with the filter blogs. But, what is the aim of...

Holmen and Magnus (2009) contend that indeed NGOs are major players on the development front of the world today. The authors document the rapid increase in the number of NGOs since the 1980. Mathews (1997) attributes the growth to the rapid development and expansion in communication technology since the Second World War. This technologically development has allowed non state actors to access, collect and manage large amounts of information in a manner which was hitherto only done by...

I will be exploring and analysing in depth the evolution of The BBCs channel idents and logos. The BBC first came around in 1922, with four members of staff, financed by a Post Office licence fee of ten shillings. However the BBC Television service didn't arrive until the 2ND of November 1936. The BBC did not have an official brand identity until late in the company's history. In 1953 the BBC began its first effort at establishing a professional, proper brand image. A man called Abram Games...

/The social formation that explains the Information Age according to intellects and Institutions is the Networked Society. It symbolizes the analysis Manuel Castells wrote and was a trilogy with the name "The Information Age and Economy, Society and Culture". Concurrent alterations to the economy of politics, culture, time and work can describe the Networked Society. The network society relates to societies with some basic characteristics. These are the societies that are digital and...

The series lasted eight complete 24-episode seasons with an additional two-hour special between seasons six and seven, with its series finale occurring in 2010. Each season's episodes take place in "real-time," as each episode takes place within one hour of one season or "day." While the entire series only lasts eight days, it also spans a length of time of close to 15 years in real time. This allows for some exposition to be revealed throughout the season, especially in the...

The earliest form of news dates back to the first century BC. The roman leader, Julius Caesar, requested a news bulletin known as the the Acta Diurna which means ''Daily Events" be posted around the Roman Empire. The citizens were notified of any political and social events on a daily basis using this hand written media form. It wasn't until the 14th century that the first printing media was developed by Johannes Gutenburg. The invention of print media made it possible for publications to...