Nowadays facebook, twitter and online newspaper are becoming much popular than buying newspaper everyday or buy magazine ever month. It is one of those new forms of media publishing, but it also can be challenging the roles of traditional journalism.
In the cyber world, news is being provided by the users for users. We call this theory of produsage. (Snurb 2007). Example is like blog or Wikipedia. These types of media are easier for the users to gain any kind of information regarding of anything.
Online newspaper and blogs sites are being used to enrich experience reading news as it is a multimodal text compared to the traditional print-based text. Multimodal text extends the readers senses to movement and sound (Walsh 2006). Readers not only can view the written text but then, they also can view such as videos of documentary or interviews through the internet sites. This will only make their reading skill or experience more exciting and interactive. Walsh support the statement by states that “a reader can choose different pathways depending on their interest”, therefore it means that, the readers can choose either reading from the internet or from the newspaper or magazine itself.
One of the strongest challenged the traditional journalism is twitter. Twitter has open doors to a whole new form of publishing. “Twitter has been used at ReadWriteWeb for discovery of breaking stories, performing interviews, quality assurance and promotions of their work”, Kirkpatrick (2008). In today’s world, twitter has played the roles of traditional journalism, because twitter has been focusing on reporting of the breaking news and also sometimes interviews.
Media publishing is changing trough time and through new environment around the world. Therefore traditional journalism is facing a transformation.
References
Kirkpatrick, M 2008, How we use Twitter for journalism, ReadWriteWeb, viewed 23 April 2011, <http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/twitter_for_journalists.php>.
Snurb 2007, ‘Welcome to Produsage.org,’ produsage, 28 December, viewed 23 April 2011, <http://produsage.org/>.
Walsh, M 2006, “ The ‘textual shift’: Examining the reading process with print, visual and multimodal texts,” Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 24-37.
Hi Ahmad,
ReplyDeleteIf you have referred to materials on the internet, please give clear accredition to the ideas borrowed, as some parts are identical to someone else's postings.
You can source, but please write your original thoughts and relate new media publishing trends to some other examples which are more interesting, and different from what others wrote. Also, use some other readings to support your argument.