the creation of contemporary forms of communication, which we will broadly categorise as ‘Social Media’. Social Media revolves around user generated content in interactive platforms allowing the kind of freedom that traditional forms of real and virtual media lack. Social media platforms can be divided on the basis of their content; Blogs (BlogSpot), micro-blogs (Twitter), content communities (YouTube), collaborative
Dreams, both pleasant and startling, have rattled human minds for ages. Defined as a series of visions, images, emotions, on virtual experiences people undergo in the state of unconsciousness or consciousness, dreams may either sooth our minds bringing about a state of peace or bring about undesirable traumatic incidents of the past. However, dreams are not limited to past experiences alone as people weave dreams with their hopes and expectations tied to the future. With little or no reason, some
previously garnered little, if any, interest among people became elevated to the status of a national monument, albeit unofficially, in the face of demolition. Nostalgia was enhanced even further when the national library building was seen as a site of memory due to its material, functional and symbolic aspects in Singapore society (Nora, 1996). People saw it as Singapore’s first major educational institution and thus, this perspective did not only just highlight its material and functional aspects but
veterans. However, it is his delineation of the extent to which values considered sacrosanct in the American ideology in the pre-war era, and particularly in his own native Midwest have been torn asunder by the stark reality of the war experience that is the central theme of the novel. The once integral mythos of universal opportunity, social equality and potential upward mobility is made a virtual mockery by his depiction of life in urban and suburban New York
interesting way to interest people. Every big media event needs what journalists and flacks alike refer to as “the hook”. An ideal hook become the central element of a story that makes it newsworthy, evoke a strong emotional response and sticks in the memory. Just like I said before at the beginning in my research essay, media needs politics to be their data as product to their program that will inform to consumers and politician needs media as the bridge to introduce and unveil. And journalists role