Trap. The combination of the genres of trance and rap usually through sound mixing and editing, has become a staple of parties and festival shows. They share similar use of synth, heavy base and spoken words to create music.
When we talked in class about usability and the internet, it sounded like the conclusion as to what makes a usable website is simplicity. Creating a website to serve a very obvious purpose is the key to usability.
Every day we are faced with multiple typefaces: the good, the bad and the ugly. Some help us to read faster and more clearly, some to invoke a specific feeling or emotion, all the while persuading us to do something (or buy something).
... and how clashing implications continue to shape our reactions to these colors.

Depending on the region and cultural upbringing, one may have different connotations associated with the colors black, white, and red.
When talking about the ethics and rhetoric of data displays in class, I brought up the example of geographic information system (GIS) and their technique of interpolation.


When talking about the ethics and rhetoric of data displays in class, I brought up the example of geographic information system (GIS) and their technique of interpolation. This was the only example I could think when a 3-D bar graph can be appropriate, but it made me think more about maps are significantly complex data displays.

In her article Ethics and Visual Rhetorics: Seeing’s Not Believing Anymore, Nancy Allen states, “Visual graphics convey information both through the data included and through the general visual impression created” (Allen 93).

In a simple map, you can think of the “data included” as attributes like names of cities and road. The “general visual impression created” would then be the colors, borders (of regions and of the map itself), and the projection. I find the second part of that equation to be more ethically significant than the first.

Any reputable map should cite the projection used. However, there are hundreds of projections. The general user may consider two maps of identical data and different projections, identical; but they are very different.

 
In this case the “general visual impression created” changes everything. The most common problem has to do with border boundaries (e.g., neighboring regions using different map projections). Regardless of projection, borderlines themselves also impact visual–the thickness of a line could be miles wide.

A map is just general visual impression.

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"The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint" makes the assertion that:

The core ideas of teaching- explanation, reasoning, finding

things out, questioning, content, evidence, credible authority not patronizing

authoritarianism-are contrary to the cognitive style of PowerPoint.
When I first pulled out Tufte's packet on Power Point, it looked like one of the most boring texts on the planet. 30 pages on the style of Power Point? But as I read, I started to see his point and even found myself laughing at certain parts (talking about the “stupefied audience”).
Since media technology has advanced past the typewriter, the capabilities of visual, and eventually digital, rhetoric using images have grown exponentially. By appealing to different human attitudes and emotions, digital images have the ability of persuasion and gaining compliance alike.
Often referred to as graffiti, tagging, or more negatively as vandalism, street-art has been around for 40ish years as it was birthed in the 70 but only gained a real popularity in the mid-80’s.
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