News tagged with visual media

NTU unveils newest 3-D technologies for real-world applications

Point your mobile phone camera at a building and it will display the building's history, elaborate on its architecture and even highlight dignitaries who have visited it before.

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Has new media desensitized consumers to graphic images?

Because younger news consumers are exposed to graphic images online and through other new media, concerns journalists have about presenting highly graphic images of war to readers/viewers may be unfounded, finds a new University ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jun 13, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Truthy.indiana.edu to search, identify smear tactics, Twitter-bombs through election runup

Astroturfers, Twitter-bombers and smear campaigners need beware this election season as a group of leading Indiana University information and computer scientists today unleashed Truthy.indiana.edu, a sophisticated ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 28, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Americans Turn to Al-Jazeera for Raw Images of War, Study FInds

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research by Shahira Fahmy in the UA School of Journalism showed that visitors to Al-Jazeera's website, including Americans, went there looking for graphic images of war that U.S. media generally don't publish.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Apr 19, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Is technology producing a decline in critical thinking and analysis?

As technology has played a bigger role in our lives, our skills in critical thinking and analysis have declined, while our visual skills have improved, according to research by Patricia Greenfield, UCLA distinguished professor ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 28, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (10) | comments 18