Screen Vs Print Media Design...

screen VS print

There are two types of media that people usually used which is print media and screen media. What are this print and screen media? Print media is the type of media such as magazine advertisement, product design and packaging and newspaper. On the other hand, screen media is the type of media such as standard website, email newsletter and banner advertising. Miller (2012) quoted that, “the basic difference of print and screen media is that when designing for print you will end up with a finished product that someone can hold in their hand, and when designing for the web you will generally work on an ever-evolving piece viewed on a computer display”. There are significant differences in the layout design for both media.

For print media:

• Spaces is measured in inches
• Dealing with anything such as billboard and banner
• The space must me consistent from start until finish and it must be the same look for everyone to see

For screen media:

• Pixels is used to measure space
• The important way to keep people always open the website is the consistent design and navigation        
• Designing your sites to look the best on all size monitors and at all monitor resolutions (Miller 2012).

In print media same text formatted using industry standard page layout software (QuarkXpress) using styles and a layout specifically designed with the content and target users and in screen media hypertext using a style sheet and layout specifically designed with the content and target users (Benetos 2005).

Reference list

Benetos, K 2005, Design Consideration when writing: Print vs Screen, Viewed on 11th April 2012,
< http://tecfa.unige.ch/staf/staf-k/benetos/staf13/per5/lire.html >

Miller, E 2012, Designing For Print vs. The Web, Viewed on 11th April 2012,
< http://graphicdesign.about.com/od/printvsweb/a/print_vs_web.htm >

New forms of media publishing...

Old school media publishing

Media publishing is where writers use to publish their works. In today's world where are the old school media publishing? people are no longer interested in using old media publishing switch their intention in using new form of media publishing. what are new media publishing and old school media publishing? According to Harris (2012), “new media publishing can simply be define as a various technologies that have emerged or seen rapid growth on a global scale during the latter part of the 20th century and into the new millennium”. Printed media such as newspaper and magazine also radio and television is old media and people rarely use that kind of media nowadays.

New Media Publishing

In 20th century social networking site and video sharing site has become more popular among internet users. “Most people who have an Internet connection are already aware of some of the major types of new media, which includes social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, as well as blogs and video sharing sites such as YouTube” (Harris 2012). What is new media ecosystem? New media ecosystem is a replacement for press releases, brochures, bulletin boards/email list, public websites or intranet (Hobson 2005). As people now tend to use internet as a medium for information searching, it's best for writing or company to use new media publication to publish their job and products. Blogs is considered as the latest form of media that are being used by majority of internet users to publish a story or share something with others (Harris 2012).

As the conclusion, YouTube and blog has been the most popular place for internet users because there is no restriction. For instance, if using a website there may have a government restriction.       

Reference list

Harris, B 2012, What Are The Different types of New Media, Viewed 28 March 2012,
<http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-the-different-types-of-new-media.htm>

Hobson, N 2005, The New Media Ecosystem: Conversation, Influence and you, Viewed 28 march 2012,
<http://www.nevillehobson.com/pubfiles/downloads/051020_NewMedia_FEIEA.pdf>

Blogging Communities...

Blogging communities describe the community of people who using blog as a medium of communication. Blog communities can best be define as blog communities aggregate the individual and independent blogs of a number of people with a share interest (Britta 2007). White (2006) has her own definition regarding the blogging community, “Blogging community is a community who interact online within some bounded set of technologies”. The example of blog communities is Xanga which is used by group of people as a medium of interaction in the same blog rather than having individual blog. According to white (2006) state, there are 3 different types of blog based community.

First blog community is single blog / blogger centric community. This blog works as community arises around the primary blogger. This form of blog based community is readers communicate with other bloggers. They get to know all the blogger and the commentator besides just commenting on the blog.

 

The second type of blogging community is Central connecting topic community. This form of blogging communities is a network formation. This community arises from group of people who shared the same interest and topic of discussion. “This form is exemplified by groups such as food blogger, mummy blogger, travel blogger and political blogger with a particular party or issue identification” (White 2006).

The last group of blogging communities is boundaried community. Boundaried communities is group of blogs and blog readers on a single site or platform (White 2006). This type of blogging communities is member has to register as the first step to join the communities before they are offered to create a blog.

  

Reference:-

Britta, K 2007, Forging Connections and Promoting Growth Through Blog Communities, Viewed 25th March 2012

< http://www.21publish.com/pub/21publish/blogging-whitepaper.pdf >

White, N 2006, Blogs and Communities-Launching New Paradigm for Online Community, viewed 25th March 2012,

<http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial/blogs-and-community-%E2%80%93-launching-a-new-paradigm-for-online-community>

Classification of blogs...

There is different classification and types of blog in the internet. This happen because different people use different types of blog for different purposes. Different people would have different interest and story to share with other internet users, so that they can express themselves in the different way. According to Laura (2012), there are 3 different types of blogs that are commonly used by bloggers which is:-

•         Professional or business blog
  ·         Profit making or news blog
  ·         Hobby or personal blog 

ABC Radio National had an interview session with media analyst Margaret Simon in discussing the different type of blogs that currently exist. According to Margaret there is 9 blogs that is currently exists. The 9 blog is:-

1. Pamphleteering blog – The purpose is to talk about politics and current events.
2. Digest blog - People use this blog to give useful fact and information that they collected from other sources.
3. Advocacy blog - Similar to pamphleteering blog. Is use to discuss people opinion on particular issues.
4. Popular mechanic blog - type of blog that created to assist people who need some advice.
5. Exhibition blog – Used by people that want to bring or show their work to public.
6. Gatewatcher blog – discuss any stories related to media.
7. Diary blog – used for people to share anything even though it’s related to their personal life.
8. Advertisement blog - Use by commercial company to advertise their products.
9. News blog - People use to share any news to others.

In my opinion on blog classification, blogs must be classified according to the type of interest for example sport blog, game blog and food blog.

Reference list :

ABC Radio National 2009, A Taxonomy of Blogs, The Media Report 2008, viewed 23rd March 2012,

<http://www.abc.net.au/rn/mediareport/stories/2008/2372882.htm#transcript)>

Laura, S 2012, 3 types of bloggers, which are you?, online, viewed 23rd March 2012,

< http://www.writingthoughts.com/?p=1671 >

 

Blogs as current phenomenon & benefits to the community

In today’s world blog has become one of the popular medium for people to share their stories with other people across the globe. “A blog also called a weblog or web log is a website consisting of entries also called posts appearing in reverse chronological order with the most recent entry appearing first similar in format to a daily journal” (Gunelius 2012). Besides that, blogosphere is world of blog as the bloggers are the people that come from different countries in different world. The blogosphere is considered a defined community within the larger scope of the internet due to the unique ways they interlink with one another and to the wider internet (Janalta interactive Inc 2010). 

 

Weblog has become a popular medium for American people to discuss about the politics issue in their country. There is also blogger in Malaysia tend to write more about the politic issue that has occurred. This is the trend of blogger nowadays using weblog to discuss political issues. Examining these effects in Malaysia allows me to simultaneously quantify blog effects and media control effects, whose interaction has practical implications for government policy and opposition strategy not just in Malaysia but also in other emerging democracies and developing nations (Gong n.d). In Australia they had their political weblog success. They are beginning to understand the benefits of using their website as a communication tool to maintain an on-going relationship with its supporters (William Pty limited 2012). Weblog in Malaysia also benefit the party because they can get the feedback from their supporters.  

Gunelius, S 2012, What is a blog?, Viewed 14th March 2012,

< http://weblogs.about.com/od/startingablog/p/WhatIsABlog.htm >

Gong, R n.d, Internet Politics and State Media Control: Candidate Weblogs in Malaysia, Stanford University

Janalta Interactive Inc 2010, Techopedia Explains Blogsphere, Viewed 14th March 2012,

< http://www.techopedia.com/definition/4862/blogosphere > 

William Pty Limited 2012, Australian Political Blogging and The Benefits, Viewed 15th March 2012,

< http://www.wiliam.com.au/wiliam-blog/australian-political-blogging-and-the-benefits >

Purpose of this blog

The actual point of creating this blog is to emphasize all stuff related to issues in publication and design. The creation of this blog allows me to interact with other peoples such as students, professional and people who already have knowledge in this field. The creation of this blog also can attract people to share their opinion and issues that they have come across. I would like to welcome people that have the same interest with me to discuss any issues and overcome the issues in this field as this blog is created for global conversation.