Essays on Voice Over

Describe the environment in which Skype competes based on the three characteristics of high-tech markets (Chapter 1).

High technology market is filled with both promise and peril (Mohr, Sengupta, & Slater, 2010, p.4). There are three main characteristics of the high-tech environment, namely (1) market uncertainty, (2) technological uncertainty, and (3) competitive volatility (Mohr, Sengupta, & Slater, 2010, p.11) Analyzing the Skype case, it is clear that company’s greatest uncertainty is competitive volatility, as there emerged a wide range of companies that provide VoIP call services. The other threat the company faced is market uncertainty, as it was reported that only about 20% of the registered customers use their accoutns actively. Thus, charging new fees may not ...

Abstract

Rhetorical criticism is basically an analysis of the items people use to communicate, such as images and words. There are different strategies that one can employ when conducting such an analysis. Most importantly, the first step is the selection of an artifact to analyze since the strategies used may differ with the artifact. In this paper, the artifact to be analyzed is an advertisement from Apple and the method employed is ideological criticism, which evaluates the message presented by this advertisement.

Research Question: What is the main message behind this advertisement and was presented in a way that was ...

Voice over IP

Abstract Organisations and business alike are embracing the use and application of various forms of information technology in their business processes and operations in equal measure. There is a myriad of benefits associated with the use and application of various forms of information technology in business operations and processes. Computer networking has facilitated the advancements currently witnessed in information technology (Jahanirad, AL-Nabhani and Rafidah 4954). While the use and application of information technology have its benefits, it presents various disadvantages as well. Voice over IP is one form of information technology that has been utilised by numerous businesses and ...

Background Introduction

The paper evaluates the utility of handheld communication devices, about use, flexibility, simplistic and intuitive design, the perceptibility of data, ability to error tolerance, physical effort low in a measure, and approach in use of space and size. The objective of this paper is to give an assessment of the above from research I have conducted. To meet this objective, I have organized it to focus on individual sections for each principal mentioned. I also discuss the designer’s aid to the physically challenged and universal user ability. Later, I finish my paper with the conclusion. The principles of ...

Released in 1977, Chantal Akerman’s “News from Home” offers a vision of New York as experienced by a newcomer. The filmmaker used raw footage of New York locations in order to realize her documentary film. She narrated the film by herself, using letters that her mother sent her over the course of several years in order to personalize her work. The voice-over narration she employs however has no correspondence to the images, being used simply in order to personalize and enrich her view of the city. The film is not easy to watch, due to the distractions created ...

For Saussure (67), the linguistic sign is constructed through the relationship of two other notions: the signifier and the signified. The arbitrariness of this relationship is what advertisers take advantage of in subliminally showing a different meaning to their advertisements. The same can be seen in the advertisements for Axe’s Excite and Dove’s Go Sleeveless deodorants. Whereas the former’s Even Angels Will Fall ad conforms to the fantasies that men have regarding their masculinity, Dove’s commercial conforms to the supposed liberation of women by going sleeveless. Advertisers subliminally change this meaning by associating a different ...

The analysis of different films about a phenomenon compares and contracts their formal qualities to bring out the desired meaning of the scenario. Guanxi as one of the social phenomena in China refers to the basic dynamic of relationships with a personalized networking of influences. The Chinese culture turns out based on Guanxi approach in bringing people together in a social setup. Three movies have ended up identified over YouTube describing Guanxi phenomena in the society. Guanxi: Chinese culture explained, the Chinese and Guanxi and lastly introduction to Chinese Guanxi are the movies for a comparative analysis in this paper. The paper analyzes ...

Global Events with Local Effects: Telecommunication Technology

Traditional law enforcement deals with threats that are local, self-generating, and self-directed. But new communication technology has changed all that (Kobelev, 2005).

Local law enforcement agencies in the United States must now consider the possibility that a terrorist attack that takes place within our borders may have been initiated; or even directed, on real-time, from a faraway country. New communication technologies now allows terrorists to conduct their operations from anywhere in the world. Terrorists abroad can raise all the money they want here in the United States to finance terrorist operations here in the United States. Therefore, it is time for ...

Book Review: American Political System

Dr. Kathleen Hall Jamieson is a well respected and award winning professor of political communication. She is the Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. She has written and co-authored fifteen books about political discourse. The titles of her two most recent books give a good idea of the theme she writes about The Obama Victory: How Media, Money, and Messages shaped the 2008 Elections (2010) and unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation (2007). Dr. Jamieson has spent her career evaluating election campaigns for the accuracy of their campaign statements. Her work ...