CCT109H5 Lecture Notes - Creative Commons, Mcgraw-Hill Education, Open Content Alliance

• School: UTM
• Department: Communication, Culture and Technology
• Course: CCT109H5
• Professor: Nathan Innocente

Document Summary

Digitization of text, fair use, ebooks, and the death of newspapers . Agenda: picture superiority effect, theories of visual perception, digitization of text, fair-use, ebooks and the death of newspapers. Core themes: contemporary communication technologies disrupt traditional business modules, contemporary communication technologies disrupt traditional legal definitions. One of the most pervasive findings in cognitive psychology is that pictures are more memorable than their verbal counterparts. Studies have shown that after 30 seconds, pictures are more easily recalled or recognized than words. Symbols, pictograms, and icons are widely used components of user interfaces in ict applications and services, e. g. for navigation, status indication and function invocation. Pictograms: images that represent a word; they re symbolic representations of an object or an idea. Icons: a graphic on a visual display terminal that represents both functions (actions) and objects on the computer system. Icons may represent a file, folder, application or device on a computer operating system.