Essays on Blain

Introduction

Mobile TV technology enables viewing of TV channels on hand-held devices so that people may watch their favorite programs, wherever they are; outdoors or inside speeding vehicles. On one hand the fixed TVs inside homes have evolved into home theaters with large LED screens and quality sound systems. The idea of having visual entertainment inside one’s pocket is appealing. A home television requires a consensus among the viewers on what program should be watched at any particular point in time, a mobile TV enabled viewing of favorite channels without competition. There are two ways of delivering this invention, ...

Introduction

Mobile TV technology enables viewing of TV channels on hand-held devices so that people may watch their favorite programs, wherever they are; outdoors or inside speeding vehicles. On one hand the fixed TVs inside homes have evolved into home theatres with large LED screens and quality sound systems and on the other hand the convenience of having visual entertainment inside one’s pocket is appealing. While the big TV required a consensus among the viewers as to what program should be watched at any particular point of time, the mobile TV enabled viewing of favorite channels without competition. There ...

Annotated Bibliography

Barnett, Brooke & Reynolds, Amy. Terrorism and the Press: An Uneasy Relationship. New York: Peter Lang, 2009. - Both Barnett and Reynolds agrees with the common notion that the Reign of Terror influenced modern history as they site that the la Terreur is the turning point of modern terrorism. Both Barnett and Reynolds also noted how the French Terror inspired the Bolshevik Revolution and the 19th-20th century contemporary terrorism in Russia as the Soviet Union came into power.

Blain, Michael. The Sociology of Terrorism: Studies in Power, Subjection, and Victimage Ritual.

Boca Raton: Universal-Publishers, 2009. - Michael Blain’s book surmises the inner workings of the term “Terrorism” and how it has ...