Tag Archives: emergent

Screens

By Tom Saunter | Published: February 26, 2013

[box]This post originally appeared on the FTMF.info planning blog.[/box] Within the pages of Watchmen, Adrian Veidt, the so-called “smartest man in the world”, esteemed business leader and founding member of the Crimebusters is shown at a wall of televisions, each tuned to a different channel. He uses this clatter of imagery, sound and motion to make sense of […]

Posted in Advertising, Culture | Also tagged business, information, Media, microsoft, monitoring, motion, new, social, social media, sound, time, view, watch, watchmen, Web, windows, wired, world, youtube | Leave a comment

13 Tools to Promote Divergent Thinking

By Tom Saunter | Published: April 19, 2011

New ideas can come from anywhere, but are often hardest to find when you’re actually looking for them. However, I believe it’s possible to jumpstart your brain, even under pressure, by applying yourself to a bit of divergent thinking: Divergent thinking typically occurs in a spontaneous, free-flowing manner, such that many ideas are generated in an […]

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Conclusion

By Tom Saunter | Published: August 13, 2009

I set out to assess the implications of a wholly new medium, one which had received little academic attention written from a media theoretical perspective. I made clear use of an industry connection to gain inside knowledge of the developments occurring to bring this medium to the mainstream. Building a methodology that could sustain the […]

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The Subscription Options Plugin

By Tom Saunter | Published: May 30, 2009

My aim is to make my views on Digital Media, Branding and Emergent Technologies as accessible as possible not only to industry types, but to the blog-scouring early-adopting masses. My ongoing series on Augmented Reality has been relatively successful in boosting both the visitation and the subscribership of this blog. Aside from the content I’ve […]

Posted in Web | Also tagged Academic, augmented reality, Blogging, brand, code, digital, email, feed, icons, industry, install, link, Media, net, new, options, php, plugin, reality, social, strategy, subscribers, subscription, subscription options, technology, twitter, upload, user, view, widget, wordpress | 8 Responses

Constructing A Methodology

By Tom Saunter | Published: May 22, 2009

Mobile AR is still highly prototypical, and has not received much previous academic attention thus far. A deep analysis of this technology and its implications requires a specially developed methodology, a methodology which acknowledges the pre-release status of the technology, and recognises that Mobile AR represents a fusion of a number of different media technologies. […]

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