New forms of media publishing

The new forms of media publishing that can be found today are Twitter, Facebook, Youtube and other websites that allows sharing between the users. It can be seen that Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube has changed the roles of traditional journalism.

Tweeternet (2011) defined Twitter as a social networking and micro-blogging service that lets users send 140 characters in length called ‘tweets’. Journalism.org (2010) states that Twitter tends to not rely on traditional media for content but it relies more on online sources and blogs. Twitter’s website design leads the user to read from left to right because the left side where the micro blogging takes place has more salience. According to Kress and van Leeuwen (2006), visual weight in a website can create a hierarchy of importance which creates salience.

According to Inkling Media (2011), traditional media will have a hard time catching up with the current social media because it is a one-way media that only pushes out news and information. Therefore, traditional journalism and media should start adapting to the new forms of media publishing to be able to continue producing news on newspapers and many more.

References:

• Tweeternet.com 2011, Tweeternet.com, viewed on 7 April 2011, <http://tweeternet.com/> .
• New Media,Old Media:Twitter, Journalism.org, viewed on 7 April 2011, <http://www.journalism.org/analysis_report/twitter> .
• Kress, G and van Leeuwen, T 2006, Chapter 6: The meaning of composition, Reading images, pp. 175-214. 
• Of Twitter, Tornadoes and Traditional Media 2011, Inkling Media, viewed on 7 April 2011, <http://inklingmedia.net/2011/05/02/of-twitter-tornadoes-and-traditional-media/> .

Blogging Communities

In White's article called 'How Some Folks Have Tried To Describe Community' (2005), she used Community Guy's opinion on what he thinks the right definition of community. He states that blogs,forums and wikis are tools used to form communities through interaction in blogs,forums and wikis. From this statement,it can be deduced that a blogging community is a community that consist of bloggers that interacts with each other that may or may not share a common interest.

Holman (2011) stated that to create a blogging community,one must reach out to established bloggers,respond to commentors,write posts in reaction to others,create a local blogger meet up and share link love.

According to White (2006), there are three types of blogging communities which are Single Blog Centric Community,Central Connecting Topic Centric Community and Boundaried Community.Single Blog Centric Community are blogs which are owned by one blogger or an organization and communities are formed through the people who comments on the blog.Topic Centric Community are blogs that are linked to each other based on a common interests or topics.Boundaried Community are blogs and bloggers that gathers under a single platform.

An example of a blogging community in Malaysia is Nuffnang. Its is a blog advertising community that enables bloggers who registers to this community to gather and attend events such as movie premieres,workshops and seminars and it acts as a platform for advertisers to promote their products (Nuffnang 2007).

Nuffnang can be classified as a Boundaried Community because its a website where bloggers can gather and share their comments on certain topics and its where the bloggers can share their blogs among each other as long as they are registered in Nuffnang.



References:

• White, N 2006, Blogs and Community- launching a new paradigm for online community, The Knowledge Tree, viewed on 29 April 2011, <http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial/blogs-and-community-%E2%80%93-launching-a-new-paradigm-for-online-community> .
• White, N 2005, How Some Folks Have Tried To Describe Community, Full Circle Associates, viewed on 29 April 2011, <http://www.fullcirc.com/community/definingcommunity.htm> .
• Nuffnang 2007, Nuffnang, Malaysia, viewed on 29 April 2011, <http://www.nuffnang.com.my/about-us/> .
• Holman, K 2011, How to Create a Blogging Community, Spice Up Your Blog, viewed on 29 April 2011, <http://www.spiceupyourblog.com/2011/03/how-to-create-blogging-community.html> .