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.
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
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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- 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.
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