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=~Content Contributions~ by Nicole Howes=

1. Purpose of this page This page is dedicated for all the big and bigger content contributions I have made this term.
 * Preliminary Notes:**

2. Regarding the 10% genre analysis The 500-700 word genre analysis I have chosen to written is on the topic of Ethnographic Documentary Photography. This semester I also took the CCT357 Criticizing Photography course which motivated me to make a Photography page. After updating the page a few times, I narrowed down my interest to ethnographic photos and images of culture. The content I have posted is original and written specifically for the CCT300 wiki. In other words, I did not write anything about Ethnographic Documentary Photography for the 357 course.

=__October 19__=

__1. Oct 19: Created a new page called Photography__
and wrote:

=Various Forms of Photographs=

1. Documentary Images
-1930s paradigm, truth and subjectivity -shifts in documentary practices: Subjective Documentary: Robert Frank, Diane Arbus -A Loss of Innocence in the 1970s: “The camera as an active mass tool of representation is a vehicle for documenting one’s conditions (of living, working, society; for creating alternative representations of oneself and one’s sex, class age-group, race, etc; of gaining power of analysis and visual literacy) over one’s image; of presenting arguments and demands; of stimulating action; of experiencing visual pleasure as a producer, not consumer of images; of relating to by objectifying, one’s personal and political environment.” Don Slater (studies how technologies affect society) -Subjective Documentary: Nan Goldin (entering her personal life) -Fiction, Contrivance, Artifice

2. Social Documents (evidence and truth)
-Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine -Documenting The Great Depression, Walker Evans, Dorotha Lange

3. Ethnographic Documentary
-Edward Curtis and August Sander

4. The Photo Essay
-a picture story with a beginning, middle and end -Eugene Smith

__2. Oct 19: created a new page called piracy (link: http://ccit300-f06.wikispaces.com/piracy)__
and posted: =Piracy=

Scott McCloud on piracy and micropayments:
Piracy Industries such as writing, film making and music have recently hit an economic slump. Middlemen required to distribute an artist's work to the audience take a large portion of revenue and the artist receives the least amount of payment in the entire process. Technology has allowed for alternatives, for instance, selling the artist's work online and delivering it directly to the customer or, putting the work online for free and making profit off of the advertising on the website.

Micropayments
A micropayment is a small payment with low transaction fees for the artist/website and provides a secure spot for the user. There is a "new economy" that may affect all artists when direct payment becomes a pratical alternative to retail shopping. Piracy happens when the consumer does not compensate the artist for what s/he has produced. A micropayment provides a direct connection between the artist and the (online) user who supports them. It is logical to suggest if a user admires an artist s/he will not want to steal from him/her. The market for online comic books would eliminate the need for middlemen and the "success tax." Without the middlemen, "creative pricing" by the artist may occur, for example offering special deals to the client. Micropayments would start a "new economy," which in turn encourages more production of new work.

Source
http://www.scottmccloud.com/comics/icst/icst-5/icst-5-full.html

=__October 27__=

Straight Photography
When practicing straight photography the photographer does not manipulate the subject nor the subject matter of the photograph. Straight photography proves valuable to science as it takes the documentary form and acts as evidence.

Berenice Abbott (1898-1991), an American photographer followed this practice in New York City during her life time. After discovering her passion for photography she wrote, "I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else." She was strongly influenced by Eugène Atget (1857-1927), a French documentary photographer. (source: [|http://www.mcny.org/collections/abbott/passion.htm])

__2. Created a new page,__ __Gmail__ __and wrote__
=Gmail=

What is Gmail?:
[|Gmail] is a free web mail service offered by [|Google]. With no pop-up advertisements, a built-in instant messaging system and over 2,600 megabytes of storage, Google is competing against other email service providers, like AOL and Windows Live. In June of 2006, Google announced they would "keep giving people more space forever," (internetnews.com).

Privacy Issues?:
Privacy on Gmail is criticzed criticized as certain phrases in The [|Gmail Privacy Policy] are "[|creepy]" and questionably worded. For example, Google CEO Eric Schmidt, on February 9 2005, writes "We are moving to a Google that knows more about you," (gmail-is-too-creepy.com). This statement generally leaves the viewer/listener with a suspicious feeling.

__1. Created a new page,__ Closure
and wrote: =Closure=

"The principle of closure applies when we tend to see complete figures even when part of the information is missing. We see three black circles covered by a white triangle, even through it could just as easily be three incomplete circles joined together. Our minds react to patterns that are familiar, even though we often receive incomplete information. It is speculated this is a survival instinct, allowing us to complete the form of a predator even with incomplete information,” (interaction-design.org)

1. Closure: the act of observing the parts but perceiving the whole p63, closure deals with “change, time and motion” (McCloud, 65) 2. Comics show us some things but not others, what isn't in the comic is important too 3. Visual iconography is the vocabulary of comics, while closure is its grammar

Closure is what happens in the reader's mind between the juxtaposed images in the comic. Different levels of closure are practiced within each comic book.

Factors Affecting Closure

 * 1) Panel to panel transition 1: Moment to moment: very little closure, ie: showing a character blink
 * 2) Panel to panel transition 2: action to action progressions: ie: hitting a base ball
 * 3) Transition 3: subject to subject: reader involvement in closure, filling in what happens in the gutter is required to create meaning, ie: someone crossing the finish line, next panel is the timer being stopped
 * 4) Transition 4: scene to scene: transports us through significant distances of time and space
 * 5) Transition 5: aspect to aspect: different aspects of a place, idea or mood
 * 6) Transition 6: non-sequitur: no logical relationships between panels
 * 7) Comics rely on only one sense (visual) to convey a world of experience

http://www.interaction-design.org/encyclopedia/gestalt_principles_of_form_perception.htmlMcCloud, Scott. __Understanding Comics__
 * Works Cited**

=**__October 30__**= = =

**__1. Created a new page The New Media__**
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Advertising
What Is It?:

Types of Advertising:

1. In Society -Billboards -Busses/Cars

2. In Your Home: -Television, ie: commericals -Internet Advertising

Works Cited:

=November 9, 2006= 1. Created a new page, onlinegambling and added graphics

=November 10, 2006= 1. Updated the Subliminal Advertising page, added subsections and graphics
 * Subliminal Advertising in Architecture**

The McProperty?



(Source http://www.tumblage.com/archive/Archive.php?Year=2004&Month=4)


 * Subliminal Advertising in Video Games**

Super Mario Brothers 3 and Cinnamon Toast Crunch

(Source [|**www.retrojunk.com/ details_articles/370/**])

//Lipton Ice Tea// vs //Nipeic Tol//
 * Subliminal Advertising Experiment**

"Maybe all the fear about the nefarious effects of [|subliminal advertising] decades ago wasn’t paranoia after all. Researchers at the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands believe there may be something to it. They asked 61 volunteers to perform a nonsense task of counting a string of letter B’s on a screen as a 23-millisecond message flashed. One group was shown the words Lipton Ice; the other was shown the meaningless words Nipeic Tol. After the test, among those who said they were thirsty, [|the majority of the people in the Lipton Ice group chose that drink] over the popular local bottled water, Spa Rood. The majority of those who saw the jumbled letters chose bottled water. Eeen-teresting. Just when you thought it was safe to watch TV again," (Lovel).

For more information http://www.snopes.com/business/hidden/popcorn.asp

=November 12= 1. Created a new sub-genre page, Ethnography Documentary Photography, copied and pasted 2 paragraphs from the Photography page with some information.

2. Created new page, Online Hate for the Critical Media Issues section, added graphic and reference to update later

=November 17= -created a new page, Playstation 3 added two news articles, graphics and works cited

=December 8= -finished my genre analysis for the 10% component of the wiki -location Ethnographic Documentary Photography