To define the new type of media, is to talk about the new age digital, computerized information that we can get online. New media often has characteristics that enable people to manipulate, compressed interactive and so on (Wikipedia 2009).
However, the explosive growth in blogging has created a tense debate on whether the death of journalism is near. But according to Naughton (2007), there will be no death in journalism but these old ‘organisms’ have to accommodate the new ‘organisms’. In this case journalism and blogging should work together as one.
For this post, I will use Facebook as the example of the new media publishing.
Facebook is the new phenomenon taking the world by storm, because it is versatile where people are able to open business through Facebook, have fan sites, and many more. It is not merely a social networking website in the sense that, users can even find work through Facebook (Vishnu, 2009).
Facebook has also opened up many possibilities in the way people communicate with each other on a day to day basis, because what we normally do in Facebook we cannot entirely enact it in real life (Shannon, 2009). Below is a video describing why the actions on Facebook can never happen in real life.
(source: youtube.com)
It has also given many people freedom of expression and speech with their functions that allow you to do whatever you want.
References:
Naughton, J. 2007, Blogging and the Emerging Media Ecosystem, online, retrieved 18th November 2009, from http://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/about/discussion/blogging.html.
Shannon 2009, How Facebook has Changed Day-to-Day Communications, online, retrieved 18th November 2009, from http://www.aimgroup.com/index.php/article/how-facebook-has-changed-day-to-day-communications/.
Wikipedia 2009, New Media, online, retrieved 18th November 2009, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_media.
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