Latest technological advances have originated the birth of new media, with an own language and characteristics of communication and contents different from traditional mass media (press, radio and television). This new media that we denominated online, coexist with the traditional mass media of a way that, at the present time, we can consider provisional or, even, experimental. The youth of the media presents in the network still does to them, employees of conventional means, due to the greater experience of these last ones in the world and the systems of the communication. This relation of dependency with respect to traditional media takes place, mainly, in which it talks about the dowry of informative contents, qualified personnel and a determined organizational structure. Therefore, the present moment, locates to us in a point of clear transition, where still they are pending the definition of some of the competitions of each one of media, as well as the boundary or delimitations of its own forms of expression within the new communicational scene.
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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We can differentiate a new media form the traditional media, this setting refers to Internet. This article says that Internet has some different characteristics, it has differentiates itself in this way by its composition, by the concepts that compose it.
ResponderEliminarOn the Internet you can meet the characteristic features of traditional media. Referring to the radio, you can listen to podcasts or online lectures. On the other hand, which is provided with a television character are the videos and the news we can find in the form of video and audio, finally the press was which started being more useful on the Internet; we can see articles, news stories, reviews, opinions...
In this article, what it tells us is that youth is the most dominant of the new media as new technologies; young people have grown with new media and have familiarized it. In schools and at home they have stayed in contacts with the technology, now essential for the student life because it facilitates the information sources and consultation.
Internet has a crucial part that has been produced by the traditional media, his way of conveying the information is retained in the new media. The idea of reporting and information sharing with the reader, listener or audience comes from traditional media and new media witness.
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ResponderEliminarThis text shows us how it’s the coexistence between the traditional newspaper and the digital newspaper, as for the new multimedia models that appeared. In addition, we can see a little bit more the difference between them.
ResponderEliminarThe digital media is characterized by his language and different contents if we compared from the traditional media (press, radio and television). Nowadays, the radio is very present in Internet, for example, in the web page of Europa FM radio, the user has the possibility to listening at the radio. This happens also in the press because we can find it in a digital format. So, the difference between both mediums is the composition of their format.
As we can see, today the traditional media and the digital media coexist. However, it’s necessary to consider the good experience that the digital way have had since it has appeared.
In conclusion, now we are in a transition moment from one media to another. Also, one medium complement the other but at the same time are independent; and it’s for these reason that both compete.