Digital

With the increase of digital media usage over the last decade, the ability to selectively consume specific content has become prominently popular within society. In order to study the growth of online resources and its added effects on mass media, theorists and scholars have applied the Uses and Gratification theory, (once only used for News Papers, Radio and Television) to the new media platform which is the World Wide Web. Various ‘Uses and Gratification’ (U&G) studies surrounding media use…

hiring. Any negative image or cuss-filled post will quickly ruin a chance for a job. Not only new hires, but also workers who may have been with a company for years are at risk. In the essay “ Living in a Digital World” Samuel Greengard says that, “employers require individuals to check digital devices and respond 24/7, there’s no clear separation between home and work.”(Greengard 17) He is stating this in the way that most business can be taken care of digitally through phone or email. This…

sources at the school with 20% reporting never or hardly using the internet at home (Johnson, G. M.). Therefore, by breaking the lines of internet use between home and school and with student literacy rates becoming more important, being literate in digital media between the blurred concepts that stem from the movement in media with which children read and write can be interpreted and processed by children (Gibson,…

R-strategy (p. 311) and developing the competencies to excel in the technology, they were able to develop innovative products catered to the changing tastes of consumers. The longer they were involved in digital technology, the more advanced their products became. Despite profit margins being slim in the digital realm, they were able to eventually capitalize on economies of scale, in which they were able to utilize cost-saving mass production to increase value for their organizations (p. 6)-and…

use over the years. (Close, 2007) In recently years, digital photography has seen a renewed use in areas of research and deep inquiry. (Close, 2007) For example, Diane Matar, a Social Work Education research, used photography in a research study of over 100 politically displaced people in Britain to present a vivid visual representation of the history and timeline of how people sought Asylum. (Phillips & Bellinger, 2010) Additionally, use of digital photography can be found in school reform as…

societies demands to shift from film to digital photography. For Kodak, the advent of digital photography was ruinous (Hardy, 2015). Once a powerhouse in the film industry, the company is now just a mere shadow of what it once was. At the peak of its season, the Kodak company was a household name with as much as $19 million in sales, 145,000 employees, housed in the 200 buildings that once stood on the 1,300-acre…

He goes on to explain both positive and negative aspects to the digital medium rather than using analog. In chapter seven, “The Social Photograph” Ritchin strongly believes that photography is not just something you look at but instead is a piece that is more “ongoing and engaged...”(Ritchin 125). Digital formats have offered more possibilities than analog for a more engaged photography, making it possible for anyone to record and report…

(A)-Graphics Card A graphics card is the hardware for a computer that produces the images that we see on the computer monitor. The Cards main job is to decide on how the pixels on the screen will be used to create the image then information that is creates is sent to the monitor through a cable. The graphics card has four main parts that it uses to complete the tasks. These are the motherboard where the power and data is connected through a connector, the processor this tells it how to use each…

Digital recording was a much more exact science facilitating easy editing, reproduction and storage solutions. The emergence of digital audio coincided with the development of the audio compact disc which is the most common medium in the commercial audio industry to date. Due to its precise nature, there is a growing culture of running a signal through analogue equipment to give it ‘warmth'. Towards the end of the 1980s, computer based sequencing and studio controlling exploded onto the…

Since the dawn of the computer age, especially the Internet the mis-intent of plagiarism seems to have taken hold of students, which has turned into blatant intent. There also seems to be a lack of education from an early level on plagiarism in the digital age and how to cite all sources. The lack of early education regarding plagiarism, deems the necessity of a plagiarism class at the freshman level of college if not high school. The educational system is failing the youth by only giving…