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.


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.

4 comentarios:

  1. This video shows us clearly the concept of interactivity in the media. Interactivity is a very attractive method for the public and for our fans, refers to participate with the medium in question and to establish contact. Fact that makes us more interest in everything what is being said and even, to add content and make you to know things that we know.
    What can generate the interactivity is that the information transmitted is not entirely reliable and either not hundred percent true, since often the reader writes about his views and opinions or perhaps something that somebody has told them, and it is because of this that people can be confused.
    We should keep the good thing about all of this and think that interactivity is to establish contact with the public, making the content in the media nature much more attractive.

    Ari

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  2. As we can see this video is like a short film where you can interact, so interactivity is very present. In the same video if we click a button we can go from this video to another video. That is to say, that when we see the buttons we have the option to choose what video we like to see and have also the opportunity to interact.

    The video is not very relevant but it’s too interesting because the user can interact with the machine. And this makes a better communication between them.

    So this video is really good to understand a little bit more what the interactivity is. We can see, from what we choose, what the person of the film is following to.

    In my opinion I see very well this type of examples hung it in youtube because they facilitate the communication to the user and especially give them the possibility of choosing what wants to happen. So now we can see what we want at any moment of the day when before we can’t.

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  3. WOW!!! I'm surprised with this mmmm how i say... interactive video?? XD.

    That's amazing, I think that someone that doesn't know what is the interactivity ,and the Web2.0 , will find that it's very funny and an original proposal. But, if you know about 2.0 webs, and interactivity, you will see that it's a good example of that.

    When you talks about interactivity, you think in facebook , twitter or any social network, but interactivity it's present in every web that we find in Internet.

    That vídeo it's the extrem of interactivity, because we see that we want. It's like if you are watching a movie on tv , and you wants to view different finals. With the extrem interactivity it's possible it's possible to feel different experiences with a similar history.

    I have lot of this experiences in videogames , because most of them have different ways to complete the final history.

    See you soon!!

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  4. Did you like the video, Josep? I thought the same when I saw it for the first time. I think it’s a good video for understand what’s interactivity. Do you imagine do the same with the movies? It would be fantastic to choose the final you want to see! For example, if you have a bad day or you are sad, and you want to laugh, you can choose a comical final!

    I was having a look at the web page you said me, 2.0 web. It's amazing what they can do with their web side! I think that incorporate the interactivity in the web sides is so funny, because people have more interest about them, so it's so good to make publicity.

    I think that interactivity will be the future of a lot of things, because the audience can choose what they want, they give the orders to the producer.

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