Category: Communications

False advertisement is untrue or misleading information given to you to get you to buy something, or to come visit their store. Those who make and sell products must honestly present their products, services and prices to you. Here are common examples of false advertising.

Question:
Select a full page advertisement from either a newspaper of a magazine and do a semiotic analysis of how the representation

Mothers say a lot of things. Some words you hear once and forget, but some linger as you grow and mature.

Two-Dimensions Alphabetical-Alphabetical Matrix (2DAAM) Numbering
for Telephone Numbering Plan Systems

More Addresses, Less Number of Digits!
Decimal National Numbering Plan… Goodbye!
Mag. Hasan Meslmani

The study of culture is a challenging undertaking because its primary focus is on the broadest component of social behavior – an entire society In contrast to the psychologist, who is principally concerned with the study of individual behavior, or the sociologist, who is concerned with the study of groups. The anthropologist is primarily interested in identifying the very fabric of society itself.

“Watching television is bad for you!”

Are your parents always annoying you saying, “Your eyes will go square” when you sit to close to the television or are they constantly saying “Watching television is bad for you”? But is it? The impact of television has been breath taking in both family life and society since the first television was introduced in the 1920s. Television is a part of all our daily lives. It is on everywhere we go: nurseries, waiting rooms and surgeries. How does television really impact on our lives? Is watching Television really bad for us?

The globalisation of media has had a drastic effect on media systems globally and the production and dissemination of information and culture. The following paper will outline how the globalisation of media restructures relations between different media corporations/providers. It will further address the impact of media globalisation on culture through examination of the two central discourses surrounding the cultural impact of media globalisation; homogenisation and hybridisation.

There is one major idea which designers and advertisers perpetually have at the back of their minds, and this idea is that “sex sells”. When we think of this we can relate it to a lot of things we observe around us especially in advertising. One can argue that advertising, particularly fashion advertising should not be focused on sex, which raises an important question- What is advertising?