I HATE FACEBOOK!

I think at the beginning when Facebook appeared on the internet space, everyone liked it because  you could find anyone that you “liked”, but I think it had some problems.

I had it for couple of months and I saw people were putting their pictures & writing their comments. After some months this website became bigger and bigger, then all of a sudden other company ads appeared on the website.

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Astra Conference & Mediazone – Now that’s news!

This past Saturday – March the 31st marked the end of the Astra Journalism Conference which began on Friday March the 30th.

Mediazone helped produce and organize the event along with the Computer Centre & the University, and provided audio / video technical support. Our Engineer It help install a live streaming event, hosted on our website. We provided video coverage for the entire 2 day event, and are in the process of creating a data file archive.

Mediazone lab assistants & volunteers pitched in to help on a rotating shift schedule making all of this possible.

Many thanks go to all those involved, whether you were standing behind the camera, setting up software, testing or making phone calls, the Mediazone team pulled through again!

John Ioannou – Senior Mediazone Officer

Traditional Media or Internet?

Recent political experiences have shown different ways of doing politics. The politicians and the campaigns that they have to run are being adapted according to the social context, cultural aspects of their audience and electoral preferences. Therefore, with the fragmentation and individualization of the audience, politicians are adapting their discourses to target voters in different ways. Nowadays, they recognize the importance of the heterogeneity and diversity of publics and their preferences. For example, some campaigns are still using traditional media to persuade voters that are not familiarized with the internet, or simply because this target public do not have access to the web or they do not like this way of communication.  In this case, the traditional media holds the radio spots, TV commercials and press media called Traditional Campaign. Continue reading

Set Date Time for Harris DTD‐A19B2 (Digital Clock)

The Harris DTD-A19B2 has an option of setting up the time without the presence of  a time code source.

The [Set Date Time] feature lets you manually set the time and date for the clock. This may be most useful for lab situations as the clock keeps time via its internal precision oscillator and real time clock when time code is not present. The time can either be set to the time of the Windows PC or a manual time and date can be entered.

If you try to setup the clock using the “Set Date Time” option please be aware of the following:

in Display Properties un-check Enabled dashes display.  This will prevent the clock from displaying dashes after losing time code.

If you don’t un-check the option above the clock will not get synchronize with the computer time.

E.S – MZ Engineer & IT

Mediazone Website New Feature! Book A Tour!

In our continuing effort to expose the University of Nicosia to the rest of the world we have placed a “Book a Tour” button on the website. This effort is closely tied into the Admissions Office of the University. A school, a group or any organization may simply fill in the details and come spend some time in Mediazone or get the full University tour. We will meet special requests and tailor the tours to your specific interests, (given advance notice.) We will offer presentations and demonstrations, and tours  that can last anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour or more!

Our goal is to have Mediazone continue to be a place of interest as the “media hub” of the University of Nicosia. We want everyone to get involved and see our facilities! Come in and tour the University of Nicosia to see what a great place it is, not just to study and learn from it, but to truly experience it!