Thursday 10 May 2012

AUI advertising for Blackberry

The video for an advertising of Blackberry made by AUI student for an Advertising and promotion class, I think that the techniques used are just amazing and the quality of the image is exellent too. They did an exellent job!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfedPWY0TYE&feature=share

Monday 30 April 2012

http://www.pressreference.com/Ma-No/Morocco.html

this website include a very interesting article about the history of press in Morocco.  the article begins with a  background and general statistics of Morocco, then it talks about the economic framework, the press law, the censorship that moroccan press has to endure. Also they talk about moroccan attitude toward foreign media, news agencies, electronic news media and at the end the education and training offered in Morocco. 

Friday 27 April 2012

How media and society interact

http://college.cqpress.com/sites/masscomm/Home/chapter2.aspx This website tries to explain how media and society interact and the effects that media might have on society and individuals. The effects of media on society can be cognitive, attitudinal, behavioral, and psychological.This website also allows you to do some quizzes to test your knowledge about this topic and see how can you deal with the effects of media.

Monday 23 April 2012

Thursday 19 April 2012

Guerrilla ADVERTISING

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGJSEEx2pXc

this is a video that is linked to what we have studied in class, especially because it represents guerrilla advertising.
I really appreciate it and it a funny video!
enjoy!!!

Wednesday 18 April 2012

Advertising

http://advertising.about.com/ this website gives a professional advice about adevertising and marketing from a veteran in the industry by highlighting the best practices , and by giving great examples of advertising and careers? furthermor , this website gives information about how to create ads , also it allows you to get updates on advertising and marketing from an industry expert

Thursday 12 April 2012

V-chip


V-chip is a generic term for technology used in television set receivers in the USA, Canada, and Brazil which allows the blocking of programs based on their ratings category. It is intended for use by parents to manage their children's television viewing. Televisions manufactured for the United States market since 1999 and all units as of January 2000 are required to have the V-chip technology. The idea for blocking programs in this way was patented by Brett West and John P. Gardner in 1994 and tested in Canada. Since then many devices using V-chip technology have been produced.


V-chip technology works much like closed captioning and uses the vertical blanking interval in the television signal. The system receives a special code in the broadcast signal which indicates the show's score according to a simple numerical rating system for violence, sex, and language. The programs' signals are encoded according to their rating, on line 21 of the broadcast signal's vertical blanking interval using the XDS protocol, and this is detected by the television set's V-chip. If the program rating is outside the level configured as acceptable on that particular television the program is blocked. The V-chip does not block news or sports casts as this sort of programming does not have ratings.
   
The V-chip has a four-digit numerical password in order to keep older children from changing its settings. However it can be overridden by anyone who reads the television's manual to find out how to reset the password to 0000 (built into the V-chip in case the parents themselves forget the password that they set).
The phrase "V-chip" was purportedly coined by Representative Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts. According to him the "V" stands for "violence". However, in an interview with Tim Collings, one of the people who claim to have invented the device, he says that it was intended to stand for "viewer control."