Augmented Reality

First of all, what is augmented reality? It is a type of virtual reality that aims to duplicate the world's environment in a computer. It is basically generating a view for the user that combines the real scene viewed by the user and the virtual scene generated by the computer that augments the scene with some additional information. The main goal beyond this trait of augmented reality is to create a system in which the user cannot tell the difference between the real world and the virtual augmentation of it. Nowadays augmented reality is used in many fields besides advertising such as manufacturing, engineering designs and entertainment. For instance, the big advertising agencies are finding their ways to get their own mobile augmented reality experience and to maximize their profits like Starbucks Cup Magic, Volkswagen Beetle Juiced campaign and National Geographic Flying Monsters 3D campaign.            

Video Games

 Video games are electronic games that allow the user to interact with a video device such as a television, computer or cellphone to generate visual feedback. There are two concepts related to video games which are the platform and the input device. The electronic system that is used to play these games is known as a platform. The input device has another synonym which is a game controller. On the other hand, the input device is used to manipulate video games. Additionally, there are different genres of video games such as casual games, serious games and educational games. Casual games are characterized by their ease of accessibility and comprehending. Serious games, however, have other goals beyond the simple entertainment goal, so they are designed primarily to teach some information and skills. Ultimately, educational games aimed to improve the technological, scientific, engineering and mathematical abilities especially for the students.

Humor, Objective and Citizen Journalism

Humor Journalism is also known as Fake news. One of the famous satirist news casters is Stephen Colbert. In his program The Colbert Report, he tries to follow the traditional news set format but with completely humorous content.

 Another journalistic style is the objective journalism. It is a neutral type of journalism which depends on the facts rather than the opinions, and it takes into the consideration the eyewitnesses of the event. This style of journalism has three main characteristics: separates facts from opinions, presents fair and unbiased news and prevents the journalists to show their emotions.

Finally, the citizen journalism has another common concept which is street journalism. It is not practiced by professional journalists, so it gives the opportunity for anyone to become a journalist and report breaking news that occurs around the world. Actually, it goes hand by hand with the new media technologies like iPhone and other smart phones and other social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn and twitter. Examples of citizen journalism would the Arab Spring and the Occupy Movement.

CNN

CNN channel stands for Cable News Network. It is considered to be the first American channel to provide 24 hour news coverage. It has main three headquarters that contribute in its broadcasting. These headquarters are CNN Center in Atlanta, the Time Warner Center in New York City and other studios in Washington, D.C. and Los Anglos. Sometimes it is called CNN/U.S. to distinguish it from the other counterpart CNN International.

It covered a lot of special events in the US and around the world like the 2008 U.S. election, September 11 attacks and Persian Gulf War in 1991.

CNN has a complementary CNN.com website to provide another option for the audiences who can watch what they have missed by watching it on the website. In April 2009, CNN.com ranked third place among online global news site according to Nielsen Rating which is a measurement system that determines the size of the audiences and defines the composition of TV programming.   

Napster

Napster is a device that focused on two music online services to download music. Its idea was developed by Shawn Fanning.  It is a pioneer in facilitating the peer-to-peer sharing of MP3 media files over the internet. Although there were a lot of devices that had the same purpose of Napster to ease the sharing of media (audio and video) files, individuals found Napster as a special device which dealt exclusively with files that are in the form of MP3. Additionally, it provides a user friendly interface and several other features such as the ability of adding the latest music automatically, the criteria of selecting the songs that suit the user’s mood and the option of creating a custom playlist. All of these previous features distinguished Napster from the other competitors in the Market and contributed to have a high demand from the individuals before the shutting down. However, Napster had shut down after Recoding Industry Association of America (RIAA) and other recording companies sued it for vicarious copyright infringement.