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Thursday, June 16, 2016

Bold Expressive Painting: Painting Techniques for Still Lifes, Florals and Landscapes in Mixed Media

Loosen up and nurture your colorful spontaneous expression!

Bold Expressive Painting offers the fresh approach you’re been looking for. Through step-by-step projects, learn to paint traditional subjects–still lifes, florals and landscapes–in a loose, modern and sometimes whimsical way. Working in acrylic or oil, you will learn the expressive approach to creating personal work that reflect your emotions and passions using techniques such as gesture painting, negative shape painting, and intuitive painting.

In addition to 10 stepped-out projects you’ll also learn:

Methods of handling vibrant color, creating a personal palette and trying out new composition formats

Ways to develop innovative compositions by incorporating personal symbols and imagery

How to breath exciting new life into previous work

Techniques for working with collage, stencils, stamps and monoprinting

Release realism and embrace a colorful and new personal, expressionist style!

Sunday, June 5, 2016

The Handbook of Global Communication and Media Ethics, 2 Volume Set

This groundbreaking handbook provides a comprehensive picture of the ethical dimensions of communication in a global setting. Both theoretical and practical, this important volume will raise the ethical bar for both scholars and practitioners in the world of global communication and media.

Selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2011

Brings together leading international scholars to consider ethical issues raised by globalization, the practice of journalism, popular culture, and media activities

Examines important themes in communication ethics, including feminism, ideology, social responsibility, reporting, metanarratives, blasphemy, development, and “glocalism”, among many others

Contains case studies on reporting, censorship, responsibility, terrorism, disenfranchisement, and guilt throughout many countries and regions worldwide

Contributions by Islamic scholars discuss various facets of that religion’s engagement with the public sphere, and others who deal with some of the religious and cultural factors that bedevil efforts to understand our world

Thursday, June 2, 2016

Raspberry Pi Projects : Build a Media Centre Computer [Repost]

Raspberry Pi Projects : Build a Media Centre Computer
.MP4, AVC, 1000 kbps, 1280×720 | English, AAC, 64 kbps, 2 Ch | 2 hours | 1.28 GB
Instructor: Chris O’Connor

Learn how to build an incredibly low cost, but powerful, media centre computer to handle your TV, movies, photos & music

Even if you know nothing about the Raspberry Pi, or what it is, this course will take you step-by-step through exactly what you need to know to build an ultra-low cost media centre computer.

This is course that anyone can do, and the software you will use is available completely free. No hardware or software technical skills are needed.

Just follow along with the well explained, straight forward steps, and at the end of this course you will have a fully functional, fast, media centre computer that can…

Stream your media across a network

Play locally stored content stored on different devices

Handle TV shows, movies, photos, and music

Can be used to stream content to other devices you might have, such as phones and tablets, or to other family members

Can even be securely accessed while you are out of the house.

The Raspberry Pi based solution you will end up with is fanless and runs completely silently. It’s also tiny (about the size of a pack of cards) and can be easily tucked away out of sight behind your TV. It performs amazingly and costs next to nothing to build, so get started now!

What am I going to get from this course?

Understand what the Raspberry Pi is

Build a Raspberry Pi

Choose the appropriate operating system for the media centre build

Understand how to store, organise, and access their media

Install and configure the operating system and media centre environment that is right for them

Turn your Raspberry Pi into a fully functioning media centre computer

Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Lynda - How to Serve Customers Using Social Media

Learn how to create a winning customer service strategy for social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Yelp, and TripAdvisor. By adapting customer service principles to the unique challenges of social media, you can ensure that your online service accurately reflects the organization’s brand. In this course, customer service expert Jeff Toister helps you develop communication guidelines for your reps. Then he helps you figure out what social media platforms and review sites your customers frequent, so you can listen intently, engage your fans, respond to complaints, and offer proactive service. Last, Jeff explains the value of online self-help options (from FAQs to online tutorials) and how to make them easy for your customers to use.

* Identifying key social media platforms
* Communicating with customers in your brand’s voice
* Listening and responding to customers on social media
* Listening to customer feedback on review sites
* Making self-service easy for customers

No mirrors below please.

Monday, May 23, 2016

i-Minds: How Cell Phones, Computers, Gaming, and Social Media are Changing our Brains, our Behavior, and the Evolution of our S

Many of us would no more go out without our cell phone than we would leave the house without clothes. We live our lives on social media, and PDAs, tablets, computers and other devices are completely integrated into our global culture. From connectedness to accessibility and instant access to information, a wealth of benefits accompanies this digital revolution. But what about the cost?

Weaving together history, popular literature, media and industry hype, sociology and psychology, and observations from over eighteen years of clinical practice and research, Dr. Mari Swingle explores the pervasive influence of i-technology. Engaging and entertaining yet scientifically rigorous, i-Minds demonstrates:

How constant connectivity is rapidly changing our brains What dangers are posed to children and adults alike in this brave new world The positive steps we can take to embrace new technology while protecting our well-being and steering our future in a more human direction

This extraordinary book is a virtually indispensable look at a revolution where the only constant is change—food for thought about which aspects of technology we should embrace, what we should unequivocally reject, and the many facets of the digital era that we should now be debating.

Dr. Mari K. Swingle is a neurotherapist and behavioral specialist who practices at the highly-regarded Swingle Clinic. She holds a BA in Visual Arts, an MA in language education, and an MA and PhD in clinical psychology, and has won numerous awards for her post-doctoral work on the effects of i-technology on brain function.

Sunday, May 15, 2016

Media Transatlantic

Editors: Friesen, Norm (Ed.)

Offers interpretations of recent developments in media and communication studies
Is the first to bring together leading media theorists and media philosophers from German‐speaking Europe
Represents a unique addition to texts related to Friedrich Kittler

This book reflects recent scholarly and theoretical developments in media studies, or Medienwissenschaft. It focuses on linkages between North America and German‐speaking Europe, and brings together and contextualizes contributions from a range of leading scholars. In addition to introducing English‐language readers to some of the most prominent contemporary German media theorists and philosophers, including Claus Pias, Sybille Krämer and Rainer Leschke, the book shows how foundational North American contributions are themselves inspired and informed by continental sources. This book takes Harold Innis or Marshall McLuhan (and other members of the “Toronto School”) as central points of reference, and traces prospective and retrospective lines of influence in a cultural geography that is increasingly global in its scope. In so doing, the book also represents a new episode in the international reception and reinterpretation of the work of Innis and McLuhan, the two founders of the theory and study of media.

Number of Illustrations and Tables

1 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour

Topics

Communication Studies

Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Cultural Studies

Printing and Publishing

Media Sociology

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Wednesday, April 27, 2016

American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers

Instagram. Whisper. Yik Yak. Vine. YouTube. Kik. Ask.fm. Tinder. The dominant force in the lives of girls coming of age in America today is social media. What it is doing to an entire generation of young women is the subject of award-winning Vanity Fair writer Nancy Jo Sales’s riveting and explosive American Girls.

With extraordinary intimacy and precision, Sales captures what it feels like to be a girl in America today. From Montclair to Manhattan and Los Angeles, from Florida and Arizona to Texas and Kentucky, Sales crisscrossed the country, speaking to more than two hundred girls, ages thirteen to nineteen, and documenting a massive change in the way girls are growing up, a phenomenon that transcends race, geography, and household income. American Girls provides a disturbing portrait of the end of childhood as we know it and of the inexorable and ubiquitous experience of a new kind of adolescence—one dominated by new social and sexual norms, where a girl’s first crushes and experiences of longing and romance occur in an accelerated electronic environment; where issues of identity and self-esteem are magnified and transformed by social platforms that provide instantaneous judgment. What does it mean to be a girl in America in 2016? It means coming of age online in a hypersexualized culture that has normalized extreme behavior, from pornography to the casual exchange of nude photographs; a culture rife with a virulent new strain of sexism and a sometimes self-undermining notion of feminist empowerment; a culture in which teenagers are spending so much time on technology and social media that they are not developing basic communication skills. From beauty gurus to slut-shaming to a disconcerting trend of exhibitionism, Nancy Jo Sales provides a shocking window into the troubling world of today’s teenage girls.

Provocative and urgent, American Girls is destined to ignite a much-needed conversation about how we can help our daughters and sons negotiate unprecedented new challenges.

Tuesday, April 12, 2016

The Google Checklist: Marketing Edition 2016: SEO, Web Design, Paid Advertising, Social Media, PR

The world of Internet Marketing is fast paced and ever evolving. The difference in the way users interact with your business online is dramatically changing. The good news is that whatever your business, more of your customers are online than ever before, and their familiarity with the Internet means an increase in purchases, contact form submissions and bookings made over the web are higher than ever.

We here at HeartCMS spend all day, every day analysing, researching and achieving online marketing for businesses across the world in every possible industry. We have access to some great tools as Google Partners to understand what your users want from your website and our team of conversion specialists have the power to implement changes to get you that conversion rate you’ve been working hard for.

This book is here to help you make the most out of your website and online marketing in 2016 and help take your business to the next level by attracting more customers and gaining more leads from your online marketing. You’ll find case studies, best practice tips and plenty of recommendations guided by our extensive experience in every element of online marketing.

We Cover

Web Design (How to make your website Google and mobile freindly)

SEO (on-site, off-site and SEO/PR search engine optimisation)

Paid Advertising (Learn how to spend less and convert more on Google Adwords and Remarketing)

Social Media Marketing (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Snapchat, Pinterest and more)

Mobile Apps

About the Author

Amen Sharma managing director of HeartCMS already has two bestselling books to his name, The Google Checklist: Website Edition and 101 Ways to Get More Customers from the Internet in 2014.

In his role as managing director at HeartCMS, Amen and a team of 40 help over 400 small to medium size businesses a year with online marketing, web site design & app development. With the HQ Based in Nottingham, UK, Amen & the team travel around the UK to support small-medium size business get the most from their website