EveryThing is Blogging: New Forms of Media Publishing

Sunday 8 April 2012

New Forms of Media Publishing

Nowadays, media publishing has totally formed a new trend compared with decade ago. Traditional media publishing has been substituted by new forms of media like Youtube, Facebook, Tumblr and others.

Types of New Media Publishing

Audiences find that viewing news online is easier and popular than viewing traditional printed news. Naughton (2006) stated that the invention of digital, internet and computer softwares have significantly improved public's life and emerge the new media ecosystem. Internet and digital created a new form of 'citizen' journalists that concentrating on publishing news and latest information to the public.

Traditional social media are very costly and time-consuming whereas new media social of internet are not only time and cost saving, it is also considered as the fastest media to spread news.

New Social Media VS. Traditional Media

Facebook is one of the most successful social networks in recent years. It has more than 845 million active users on their site (Alexander 2012). Facebook users can share their personal information and their preferences and interest with others. Users also can publish their latest news via Facebook. For example, we can find much news about dog abuse cases via Facebook. By using the power of sharing through the pages and the proactiveness of the users, bloggers have successfully identified the abusers and created public awareness. News can be easily spread out by using internet.

Facebook pages that concern about Dogs and Animals

Nowadays, newspaper companies also choose to launch online news in order to capture more readers and youngsters who rarely read newspapers. The Star, one of the largest newspaper companies also provides online news to report latest news and information to its audiences (The Star Online 2012).