New Forms Of Media Publishing

Of late, media publishing has evolved to different heights since the days of newspapers and radios that can now be classified as "old school" or rather old fashioned and this is because there is a new up and coming way of publishing which is through the internet. To be more exact, through social networking websites such as Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. Newspapers and radios are considered to be out of date because this type of media are said to have been less profitable this days due to the advancement of technology (Ostrow, 2009). 

I personally am a user of these social networking websites respectively and i find that it is very true that through the internet is the new age of publishing. Newspapers and advertisement on the radio is no longer vital compared to the internet as most people of my generation spend more time staring at the computer than doing anything else for the rest of the day. 

Furthermore, social networking websites mainly Facebook and Twitter has been playing a huge role in the evolution of journalism. Journalism used to be written or printed text on a magazine or even on the newspaper but what Facebook and Twitter has done to today's journalism is that they just publish what they have to say on their mind on these social networking websites. For example, celebrity journalism today is basically that celebrity or his/her representative will just update their status on Facebook or just tweet on Twitter. Now even Youtube has been said to be the forefront of a new video transformation on the net (Walejko & Ksiazek 2008)

References

Ostow, A 2009, Stats: Old Media Decline, New Media's Ascent, viewed 28th August 2011,

Walejko, G & Ksiazek, T 2008, 'The Politics of Sourcing: A Study of Journalistic Practices in the Blogosphere', Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.