Today, we can easily get the latest news through new media (The Web) in just one click. The web is a place where new forms of media are being published. Example: blogs, social networks like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, online newspaper and etc ... The community or readers can just easily get information in a blink of an eye. According to (Naughton 2006), Internet and software tools are the latest combination of media nowadays.
Multimodal text has gained more readers attention compare to traditional print-based texts. Hence, it also entertains the readers with sound and animation (Walsh 2006). Besides, readers also can view documentary, video of interviews, entertainment, news in written text nowadays which makes their reading more interactive and interesting.
"Follow Me (Twitter)"
In this century, twitterjournalism.com has opened a new form of media publishing where Twitter has definitely challenged the traditional journalism. Breaking news, interviews and assurance has been used in ReadWriteWeb. Besides, traditional journalism has also included Twitter in the discovery (Kirkpatrick 2008).
Reference :
- Kirkpatrick. M 2008. How we use Twitter for journalism. ReadWriteWeb [online]. [Accessed 29 August 2011]. Available from: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/twitter_for_journalists.php
- Naughton. J 2006. Blogging and the emerging media ecosystem [online]. [Accessed 29 August 2011]. Available from: http://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/fileadmin/documents/discussion/blogging.pdf
- Walsh, M 2006, “ The ‘textual shift’: Examining the reading process with print, visual and multimodal texts,” Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 24-37.
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