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/> .
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