Saturday 7 April 2012

Distinguish Print and Screen Design.

Print design and screen design come in completely different aspect each. Screen design is well known to various websites on the web like blog for instance. According to Walsh (2006) screen documents have the potential to combine words and images in a complex structure. On the other hand, Print designs are more to 2 dimensional (Neilsen 1999) due to the layout. In addition, print design is more striking and intricate in terms of the design.

Screen Document (blog) - Source: Google

Print Document - Source: Google


Basically, according to Neilsen (1999) there are three considerations of differences on designing screen and print documents such as:

1. Main structure 
Print document are 2 dimensional while screen documents are divided to 1 dimensional and N dimensional. also, screen documents are more attractive to the readers because it is more to scrolling experiences therefore it allows reader to scroll down/up for their needs of information.

2. Navigation
Turning the page is only navigation for print documents. on the other hand, screen documents come with hypertext navigation which, it mixed with information architectures, visualization thus it attract users impression more. Last but not least,

3. Response time, Resolution and ''Canvas'' Size
even though, users are more attracted to screen documents yet however, the response of screen document is much slower compared to the print design due to screen document need to wait for a page to fully load.
Regarding on the size, print document have a stable and fixed size (Hilligoss & Howard 2002). 

in conclusion, as both screen and print design has its up and down side yet both still need to be well structured in terms of visualization in order to keep the reader attracted and entertained. 
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Reference: 
- Hilligoss, S, Howard, T 2002, Visual Communication: A Writer’s Guide, viewed on 7 April 2012, 2nd edn, Pearson Education,<http://www.ablongman.com/mycomplab_content/pdf/long_hilligoss.pdf>.
- Nielsen, J 1999, Differences between print design and web design, Alert box, viewed on 7 April 2012, <http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990124.html>.
- 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.

Friday 6 April 2012

Deepening on New Media Publishing.

Internet has vastly altered the way we access bunch of information also in terms of way we communicate. According to Naughton (2006), the speed of development seems to be on the rise with the combination of personal computing, digital converge and global networking slides. The existence of new media trends for instance Blogs, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, Microblogs, online Journalism etc have become a major outbreak in the society nowadays.

V-blog
As a matter of fact, youtube is the largest video site on the web as it has almost more than 3 million visitors everyday (Clean Cut Media 2009). Nevertheless, many blogger uses this site to share video with another users by uploading variety of video. The popularity of youtube has altered communication in the media ecosystem now for instance, our very own prime minister Haji Abdul Razak who has his own Youtube channel in order to deliver messages.
In addition, Walsh (2006, p.30) has stated that Internet site have the ability to combine text into complex structures for operating. For instance, the microblogging services. 

According to Nesbitt (2009) microblogging is the act of posting short messages to the web. Basically, a person uses microblogging to update on a current event. one example would be on the detik.com. a twitter account with the username of @detikcom is an indonesian twitter account which it was used as a warn of news event to all indonesian citizens on what is happening everyday

source: Twitter


To be concluded, the emergence of new media trends has improved all the usage and ability in more convenient ways hence, all citizen in the society will get all updates easily. 
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Reference:

- Clean Cut Media 2009, Youtube Statistics: The Ultimate Time Suck, viewed on 7 April 2012, <http://www.cleancutmedia.com/video/youtube-statistics-the-ultimate-time-suck>.
- Naughton, J 2006, Blogging and the emerging media ecosystem, viewed on 7 April 2012, <http://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/fileadmin/documents/discussion/blogging.pdf>.
- Nesbitt, S 2009, What is Microblogging?, techtips, viewed on 7 April 2012, <http://www.geeks.com/techtips/2009/what-is-microblogging.htm>.
- Walsh, M 2006, 'Reading words, images and screen: reading an internet site or hypertext', 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.