Thursday, September 30, 2010

New forms of media publishing

According to Naughton (2006, p.10) the new media ecosystem will be richer, more diverse and more complex because of the number of content producers, the density of the interaction between each other and the speed at which each other can communicate.

Some New Forms of Media Publications are:
  • Blogs
  • YouTube
  • Online Magazines
  • Online Newspapers
  • Online Books

So how is new forms of media publishing different from old forms of media?

The combine affordances (‘showing’, ‘telling’ and ‘hearing’) the digital modes offer in this multimodal environment has created a dynamic interaction between the users and the site (Walsh,2006, p.34). Perhaps the most significant difference is the emergence of the user generated contents. This new forms of media allow readers to be as creative as they can be. They can be the producer of and at the same time the publisher (Snurb, 2008, p.1-2). 


As U.S Secretary of states Hillary Clinton emphasized on her speech about internet freedom, the spread of information networks is forming a new nervous system for our planet, when something happens anywhere the rest of us learn it in real time and responds to in real time.


U.S Secretary of states Hillary speak on internet freedom.
Source:- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccGzOJHE1rw

These new forms of media’s are allowing citizens to be active journalists, thus providing opportunities to be active participants in providing news and information. According to Reuters Traditional Italian winemakers are now using social media to publish their products. “Crociani, who says she was the first Italian winemaker to start a blog in 2004, said she has gained many new clients -individual wine lovers, restaurant owners and professional buyers -after launching a Facebook page.” (Reuters, 2010)

Twitter has upgraded its service to its users, The company announced deals with 16 partners to let users embed their multimedia content within the site, can showcase material from Google Inc.’s YouTube and Yahoo! Inc.’s Flickr, along with smaller services like Justin.TV” (MacMillan , 2010).

Surely the new media freedom of journalism has become a voice for some unheard voices among our societies while it also disturbs some counterparts in a society. Here is an interesting heading from Bloomberg, “Cyberactivists Get Help From YouTube, U.S. to Thwart Repression”. Ashraf is co-founder of AccessNow which was created because of the Iran’s post-election restrictions on YouTube, Twitter and Facebook  gets help from different sources to broadcast.

Source:  http://www.accessnow.org/

The Internet has built-in perils for democracy advocates. Lakshmanan     ( 2010)  cited according to Global Voices Online, an international bloggers network, has documented 206 cases of bloggers under arrest or threat, most in China, Egypt and Iran. In 2003 Iran became the first nation to imprison a blogger for blogging. (Tecnorati, 2009).

According to (Chau.et.all, 2009, p. 40), they have identified and analyzed a selected set of 28 racist hate groups (820 bloggers) on Xanga, one of the most popular blog-hosting sites.


References:
  • Chau. M , Lam. P , Shiu. B , Xu. J, Cao. J , January/February 2009, A blog Mining Framework, IEEE Computer Society.
  • 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.

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