iif_kgpm_Dictionary_of_Media

aberrant readingaberrant reading interpretation of atext in a way that was not intended orexpected by its authoraberration distortion of a videoimage, caused by a corrupt signal orimproper adjustmentAboriginal People’s Television Network[abbreviated as APTN] televisionnetwork launched in 1999 withheadquarters in Winnipeg (Canada)devoted to broadcasting the storiesand cultural interests of Canada’sFirst Nations. It is available nationallyon basic cable and via satellite.Web site: www.aptn.caabove-the-fold 1. top part of thefront page of a newspaper (storyand/or photo) that is visible whenthe newspaper is folded; 2. the mostvaluable part of a Web page, placedat the top part of the screen so thatthe user does not have to scroll downto see it; 3. any prominent story (inany medium)above-the-line advertising promotionalmessage for which a commissionis paid, such as commission foran ad in a magazine or a stand at atrade fairabove-the-title the location of creditsthat appear before the title of a movie(for example, the names of the starringactors, the name of the director,and the name of the producer)absence the exclusion of a sign (aword, a symbol) from a specific locationto show that the same positioncan be filled by other signs, but withdifferent meanings. For example, inthe sentence The . . . ate the cake,the empty slot can be filled by nounssuch as boy, girl, woman, or man.Absence is a technique for showingways in which meaning is determined.absence-of-language techniqueadvertising strategy employing theomission of taglines, slogans, or anyother kind of verbal commentary,suggesting implicitly that a product“speaks for itself.” Print ads withoutcaptions and TV commercial sceneswithout dialogue or explanationare common absence-of-languagetechniques. Sometimes, the techniqueis intended to provoke the viewerthrough the image.absolute cost actual cost of placingan ad in some medium (magazine,newspaper, radio, television, Internet)absolute time length of time that anaudio disc has been playingabstract data type in computerprogramming, a data set definedby the programmer in terms of theinformation it can contain and theoperations that can be performedwith itabstract expressionism a movementin twentieth-century art thatbroke away from the concept of artas representation, promoting insteada mode of painting that expresses the4