For this project I was thinking of structurally and phonologically examining the common web survey. I would look at 2 or 3 representative surveys, possibly ones made at Zoomerang or survey monkey. It is already clear to me that online surveys have a very clear syntagm. So what do you think of this idea? Do…
So for my final paper, I have decided to use the work I have been doing for my capstone project in politics, more specifically by looking at political blogs (still in the process of choosing one or two specific blogs to focus on which are representative of political blogs in general)… how do conversations unfold,…
Mingxian posted an excellent question late last week about the problem of intention. If we look at camera angles in Bleu or La Strada, and we perceive that they relate fortuitously to narrative themes (etc.), and we attribute that coherence to the “director’s intention,” are we leaving structuralism/semiotics and heading back to phenomenology? My answer…
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This is one of the three mobile phones HTC just released. The company plans to have more patterned mobile phones become available in the market in the near future. I have not seen mobile phone like this in America. In Asia, where lots of people are crazy about knowing and buying mobiles that just enter…
La Strada I had a couple of ideas when we were talking in class about how the director of La Strada chose to give the mother so little screen time even though she was dominating the dialogue and was so emotional. As Jeff pointed out this was the ’50’s and one of the golden rules…
Emergency3 is obviously the third in a series of a games. This game is often considered a serious game, but I would say it’s more of a real-time strategy game that makes you really appreciate how difficult being a first responder or incident commander can be. This game takes on an isometric view with adjustable…
Should we read Manovich or Bolter & Gromala, and Bardzell&Bardzell for next week?
I know that today we were trying to find the code how to interpret those movies. We were talking about one detail give us clues about what would happen later, and the camera positions tell us blablabla. However, David mentioned that the director forced us to see the focuses and the next screen, we have…
Today in class we agreed that there are less options in terms of directing/controlling focus on the stage than in the cinema. I want to bring up the way lighting is used on stage. Though it does convey emotional reaction with color and mood, etc., I primarily want to focus on how it’s used to…
I just had a question about something that was mentioned briefly in the very last lecture we had covering semiotics. We were talking about how syntagms imply time as a factor and rules in a sequence and gave the example that certain tasks are structured in a sequence, online shopping for example. So, tasks are…
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