In this blog we are going to explain how the newspaper has evolved throughout its history and how it has changed. We hope you enjoy it!
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.
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ResponderEliminarThis video talks about the Internet revolution. Specifically, it talks about the great change that occurred over the last decade of the last century. Specifically talking about the attitude and the evolution of humans on the Internet. It says that thanks to the internet we can be everywhere and know everything, it helps humanity to advance more quickly. With the evolution appears Internet TV and internet radio, this makes the ad runs. Another important development is 'google news' and 'OhmyNews', a digital newspaper written every day by thousands of journalists. The good thing about digital is that the newspapers are free. The most widely used program for videos is 'youtube', and the photo 'flickr'.
ResponderEliminarThe consumer has a new attitude: prosumer. Now the viewer chooses what to watch and how they want to watch the content it offers. The prosumer can also create their own information and broadcast on the network. A very important advance is that in big cities around the world have free internet access. This allows better communication.
Finally gives an estimate of the future, says that television, radio and newspapers will disappear and we'll find everything online.
THE MASS MEDIA REVOLUTION
ResponderEliminarThis video talks about the future of the mass media and the power that these will have. The revolution of the mass media with Internet at the end of this last century has affected the old mass media, since these tend to disappear. Newspapers emphasized as the Wall Street Journal appeared in Internet to offer free information. Other spaces like Youtube, for example, serve to upload free movies. So nowadays in the Web we can find free contents.
Now, most of the people arround the world connect it free and get used to the new virtual words of Internet; the Network includes and unifies the whole content. The old mass media, therefore, are left of side.
With the power of masses a new figure appears, the "prosumer", now anyone can be a producer or a consumer of information. We see for example that the electronic diaries are a product of mass.
It is said that in a not very distant future the traditional diaries will disappear and then, we will only find them in the Internet. And it is thanks to Internet that we can be in any part of the world and know any thing; and if we like it or not this make a rapidly advance of the humanity.