Newspapers Revolution

Newspaper evolution

To explain the newspaper evolution is important to know what the mass media is.
The mass media is maybe the most important clue that has changed the way to precede the information. It is a set of elements that trough them the information is reported massively to the society. It is the way trough which the information is collected, processed and communicated.

The first method of communication that born in the society is the capacity to remember histories that old generations told, and those histories are remembered and retold to the new generations. It was an oral method.

In that oral stage, people have improved in the society and in language. There was a shift when the man created the writing and the media that endure: in that way it appears the writing and printing. The newspaper starts to be very used in the society, everyday news were explained for them in the mass media.

The new technologies development affected and affect nowadays to all the mass media. Computing and the Internet have improved and optimized the production process and the mode of transmission of news.

Is in that decade when the computer becomes the owner of the industrial production of paper. Also nowadays is the same in electronic newsrooms, conducting plates for printing, etc. that is all controlled by the computer.

New instruments have born to obtain information from electronic mail, satellite signals, cell phones and digital cameras among other resources have transformed the traditional print media.

The digital newspaper like an interactive tool

Nowadays, in our society there is the traditional newspaper and the digital newspaper. The digital newspaper is characterized by his interactivity with the users. We talk about interactivity because it offers a few interactive contents, that is to say, multimedia contents (images, videos, texts…) that allow that the reader should participate more actively.

In the digital newspaper we can find interactive tools as the hypertext (links). A digital newspaper has more text contents than multimedia contents. These contents update in relation to when the news happens. So, the structure of a digital newspaper is hierarchic because the contents are arranged from a bigger importance to a minor importance.

The digital newspaper presents readers' letters, e-mails of contact, forums, surveys and interviews. In a digital newspaper we can find access to versions of the diary printed in format PDF. A good thing of the digital newspaper it is that it can store a lot of information whereas the traditional not; and something bad is that the reader has few opportunities to take part in the production of the news.

Advantages and disadvantages of the digital newspaper

The online newspaper has many advantages over traditional newspaper. First of all we should note that online newspapers add a lot of tools that add information to the news. The tools give to the reader more information and understanding of the news. The traditional newspaper only has texts and some images, the online newspaper add videos, surveys, lector’s comments, etc. It makes easier the act of read the newspaper.

Another advantage is the price. Read the newspaper online means not to pay anything. However, we have to pay some money to read a traditional newspaper. So this is another factor to choose the online newspaper.

The next advantage is the new attitude of the lectors. They can give their opinion and discuss her point of view with the other lectors. It’s another think that traditional newspaper can’t offer.

Another factor is the convenience. It’s more convenient to choose what you want to read with a click of your mouse than search the content you want to read on the pages of the newspaper. However stay a lot of hours in front of the screen is bad for our eyes.

miércoles, 30 de marzo de 2011

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HOW TO RECYCLE THE NEWSPAPER

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As you know, one of the problems about the newspaper is what to do with them after be readed. There are a lot of solutions like do artesanal things, in the first video you can see things made by the paper of the newspaper, for example necklaces or bracelets. They are so original and you can spend a great time making them.

They aren't made for impress someone in a party or in an important event, but for day a day they are correct and funny. They are a solution for an original present too, because they are made by you and they can have a sentimental value.

They are a lot of possibilities to use the papers of the newspaper, another famous is the recycle. It is a very good opcion because the papers can be used to make another things and it's easy too. First of all we have to recollect all the exemplars we have. Then we have to throw it in the paper recycling container. The next step is the recycling truck, which picks up the paper and brings it to the recycling center. Then a big machine shakes the newspapers, and melts them. Following that, the machine washes the papers, flattens them, wraps them, and convert them in paper ready for use.

martes, 29 de marzo de 2011

THE NEWS ON THE IPHONE AND THE FUTURE OF JOURNALISM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-JAzbn4tLc

Today i have watched some videos on youtube about iphone. I don't have anyone but I was interested about how to know the news through the iphone. This video explains in a brief way how to know all the news and how to participate. And it's so easy: only with your finger you can read all the actuallity and be informed about everything. You only have to write about what you want to know.

You can participate too. You can give to them all the information you want. For example, if you take some videos or some photos about an interesting event, you can send it to them. It means that the journalists have more material to work his news. Personally, I think it's so interesting, because the journalists can contrast the information and reach more tools in order to make the reader understand everything easier. But on the other hand, the readers are in risk, because they have a lot of information about the same thing and sometimes it's difficult to select the correct information.

This makes appear a new dilemma, because if citizens can send material about the news and can make their own texts, the role of the journalist is in danger. Some people believe that journalists will disappear in a future, and blogs and social networks will serve to inform the population. I hope these people are wrong, because I believe that citizens don't have the same ability to report as a professional who has a university degree.

Digital newspaper

jueves, 17 de marzo de 2011

The life of the news paper

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLP6uqHY1FQ

I have chosen this video because I think that’s an original way to explain the short life of the newspaper, from the birth of a new until we throw away the newspaper. In this video appears the animation of a man, and on the background of the image appear hundreds of pictures about newspapers. It’s a hard work, on one hand because of take a lot of photos, and the other hand because of do the animation.

Talking about the history of this video, it starts with the typical image of a sperm fertilizing an ovule. It means the beginning of one event. Here starts the progress of the creation of the newspaper, because we need the happenings to write something on our newspaper.

After that appears the ovule making an evolution from fetus to a baby. Then the baby starts crying. It means the evolution of the incident, and when the baby starts crying means the “boom” of this event, the moment where happened something so important with the sufficient magnitude to by reported.

Then a boy who is distributing newspapers appear on the video. It means the moment that the new is arriving to everywhere, so now a lot of people are knowing what happened, but everyone says different thinks, so we need someone who explain the happening correctly.

Following that appears an image of a journalist with a notebook. It means a journalist writing about the new. He has to collect all the information that he needs to write the new rightly. He has to ask everyone who was there at the moment of the incident and then can start writing.

After that appears a journalist writing on a typewriter. He’s writing the new with the information that he has collected. When the text is already to be published the new appears on the newspaper. Now everyone can read about the incident in an objective way.

Then appears an image about a graphic declining. It means that the new is losing the interest of the audience. Consequently the next scene: we throw away the paper.

And finally appears the newspaper behind a rubbish. It means the dead of the newspaper. When the audience don’t need the information about the newspaper it became useless.

miércoles, 16 de marzo de 2011

Newspaper Industry: Evolution or Catastrophe?

http://seekingalpha.com/article/113569-newspaper-industry-evolution-or-catastrophe

In this article, Mathew Ingram says that in Internet we can find and we will continue finding blogs, articles of magazines and more sites of information. We speak about a crafted industry that studies the "failure" of important newspapers as the New York Times, for example. The article comments that some people have the opinion that bloggers have been those who have killed the journalistic industry whereas others are more optimistic about the evolution of the mass media, as the newspaper.

There have been many predictions about the death of the old mass media as the newspaper and other mediums. But when we speak about journalistic death we talk about the end of impression? And why now old mass media die more rapidly?

A serious problem is that many newspapers only can survive if they cut away expenses (between 75% or 80%); we speak about personal expenses and everything relates to the use of press. But would this also suppose the end of the journalism?

Many other issues are still about whether the newspaper industry is improving or deteriorating; but the answer is in the air, so we have to wait and see what will bring the future and come face what is good or bad.

viernes, 11 de marzo de 2011

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This is a very interesting video about the interactivity. The new mass media adds some tools that make easier the comunication betwen the user and the program. This tools make a new attitude of the users thanks to the interactivity.Now the users can choose what they want to see, when and how.

This video from youtube is a clear example of the interactivity. Is an interactive animated short film. When you see the buttons you have to press one to make a choice. After that another video appears with the action that you had choose. It's very funny and it's a good example to understand the word interactivity, because it's your decision to choose the next situation of this boy.

Personally I think that interactive is a very good invent, because helps the consumers to find the thinks that they need and it's easier to know what the audience like the most. Now the audience have not to stay in front of the television or in front of the computer and watch everythink. The audience can choose what they want to see.