New Form of Media Publishing

In the beginning of 21 century, the combination of digital convergence, personal computing and global networking seems to have ratcheted up the pace of development and is giving rise to radical shifts in the environment. (Naughton, J 2006). Like Walsh (2006) said the textual shift to be multimodal text (those texts that have more than one 'mode', so that meaning is communicated through a synchronisation of modes). For example: the old media shift to new media, whereby print newspaper altered to online newspaper.

New Media ecosystem

Naughton, J 2006 claimed that the new media ecosystem will be richer, more diverse and complex because of the number of content producers and the density of the interactions between them and their products. John Battelle, found out that the dramatic effects that powerful search engines such as Google are having on the advertising and marketing industries that could threaten the other companies. Internet is also making much harder for companies to keep secrets. In the real facts, nothing is secret in new media ecosystem. Like Naughton,J (2006) claimed, user-generated text whereby users could published, share, and make available to the world.

A new trend in New Media ecosystem.

However, in new media itself, lots things had shifted. Hopkins, found out the growth of blogging has slowed down, but the total number of blogs is still growing. (NST, 2010). It due to the inconvenient of blogging, such as html code in error, or blog takes quite a lot of work especially on adding pictures into your blog. In contrast with 'Twitter, Facebook, or YouTube' as in a new trend in the new media. The microblogging sites which enable easy and quick upload of brief text updates, pictures, and videos . It also consider as Moblog, where people are free to upload their photo, status, or video through mobile phone. The more easy and fast, people tend to seek for that.

Twitter is changing the communication way

The 'Paradigm shift' from old media to new media, effected the conventional journalism. Based on the current ages users especially youth tend to prefer twitter as a substitute of blogs. Twitter is a social networking and microblogging to send a message to the other users which nowadays you can do through mobile phone updated (Moblog).

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Benefits:

• Social Networking, with 140 words, we can post up our idea, mood, or status.In twitter, freedom of speech is open.
• Fastest information: Michael Jackson death, twitter was the first updated information accordingly before he passed away.
• "Twitter Vote Report" - an open source software program that merges internet-based data with reports from election poll monitors to produce a real time report of where and when fraud might be happening. It was used in 2008 US elections, India, and Afghanistan.
• Alternative of new media, eg: when journalist were banned from reporting the events in Iran, some Iranians via twitter to tell the world what was going on.

Some issues towards Twitter:

1. Security issue: Twitter brings convenient towards the user such as tweets, follow and comment. However, the current facts about security issues is being obvious. Twitter was hacked and 33 major Twitter accounts were made to post fake tweets including Barack Obama, Britney Spears, Rick Sanchez, and Facebook.

Barack Obama twitter account was hacked by someone irresponsible

• Over-crowded: The 'in' of twittering among the community caused the traffic system will be crowded. The result , audience will tend to give more bad reputation on twitter in the end.

User of twitter are angry because of the error from twitter for last several days
Sources: http://twittown.com/social-networks/twitter/twitter-blog/more-twitter-problems

• Copyright issue: The terms of service from twitter, make it really clear that anything you post out is your own rights. In the other words, any idea that you brought up towards the public through twitter doesn't have any copyright. Anyone could copy paste your post without your knowledge even though it is just 140 limitation words.

• Manipulation: Even though users will get fastest information through twitter, however the reliability is still question mark. Someone could change the information value and publish it since twitter is limited on the words terms.

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