This paper reports a case study on how a conceptual and analytical thinking approach was used in Art and Design Department at Multimedia University (Malaysia) in addressing the issues of one nation and its impact in the society through artworks. The art project was designed for students to increase the know-how and develop creative thinking in design and communication. Goals of the design proje...

“Viewing and Representing in the Middle Years” was a two-year project to investigate visual literacy in the English language arts classrooms of three teachers. These teachers tried a variety of approaches and were generally optimistic about the benefits of the increased inclusion of visual materials. They did, however, report a number of challenges in using viewing and representing approaches a...

Learning objects are considered as complex signs, since they convey meaning through a physical support and are related to real or conceptual object. In addition, it is possible to define a sequence of learning objects that can be modeled as having a narrative structure the advantage of this proposal is that, from the structural theory of narrative, content and expression can be treated separate...

This article takes semiotic as a practical approach toward the study of advertising. An attempt has been made in this research to investigate the ideology or hidden languages in two 'OMEGA' watch ads which selected from time magazine issued 2002. Advertisers believe that a very crucial way to a successful advertisement is the use of photographic style. It may play a major role in catching the a...

The massive spread of Coronavirus has badly affected the entire globe and lives people irrespective age or gender. Children in this regard are no exemption. They not only physically but also emotionally mentally due to virus quarantine period. This study aims provide a semiotic analysis visual representations Covid-19 children’s book covers selected on global level. These new emerging literatur...

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Frequent use of expressive suppression to regulate one’s emotions can impair long-term health and well-being for both children and adults. Therefore, there are important pragmatic benefits to identifying contexts in which individuals learn to avoid expressive suppression. We hypothesized that individuals involved in acting classes -a context in which expression of emotion is highly valued -may ...

This paper addresses the question "What is creativity and how do we 'teach' it?". It proposes that the term 'creativity' has been so overused in non-arts contexts that it has been emptied of meaning for our domain. The paper draws on an extensive review of literature in the field to reframe and reclaim the discourses on creativity for artistic practice and learning. It explores approaches to pe...

The difficulty in reading and interpreting textual information interferes in the quality of the interaction of pre-linguistic deaf in the web. This article aims at determining whether the use of new communication strategies improves interaction of the deaf. The stage of data collection and observation involved the participation of eight volunteers. Two sessions of observation of interactions we...

Primary hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is currently the fifth most common malignancy and the third most common cause of cancer mortality worldwide. Because of its high prevalence in developing nations, there have been numerous efforts made in the molecular characterization of primary HCC. However, a better understanding into the pathology of HCC required software-assisted network modeling and a...