Lost? Hope this helps.
To my horror, friends without a Communications background are quite lost whenever I mentioned 'document design' to them. Therefore, I've decided to give a bit of explanation based on my own observations as to what 'document design', etc means.
Document Design
Many people would immediately think of MS Word when they see the word 'document'. Scrap that.
Document refers to:
- any given piece of material that contains information
- even paintings can be thought of documents because they contain information that the artist wishes to portray to viewers
- how the creator positions the elements within that material so that it conveys a certain message.
- think advertisements, television programmes, newspapers, books, websites, just to name a few
I'm one of those people who'd rather sit in front of my PC and watch videos on YouTube or Peekvid than watch TV. Since MTV Asia doesn't normally feature the heavy rock/metal music videos I like, I normally download them here.
It's about convenience. It's about being able to do what you want at your own time. Even Jakob Nielsen mentioned how important convenience is nowadays in his website.
New Media Developments and Technologies
CeBIT Germany 2007. Singapore IT Show at Suntec City. 3GSM World Congress at Barcelona. They all feature the latest in Information Technology. At the 3GSM World Congress, we see mobile phones as also cameras, PDAs and walkmans.
Haven't you heard? Singapore's going wireless. Just invest in a laptop and you can chat online with your friends or surf the Internet anytime and anywhere with wireless connection.
It ain't just about the television, radio or newspapers anymore.
Genre Analysis
This is a blog and one of the many genres or categories of published content on the Internet. In turn all media are divided and subdivided into categories for easy identification. We can then immediately process certain information based on the categories such media are classified into.
Happy reading.
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