2D. New Forms of Media Publishing

Internet has refined the media in a great extend. 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 such as Micro-blogging, Google+, Blogger, Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, and so forth have become a major commencement in the society at the moment.

V-blog

V-blog is generally known as video-blog. Owning to the fact that Youtube is the largest video site on the web, blogger often uses this site to share videos to all users subscribed to this website by uploading plenty of videos. Hence, the popularity of Youtube has changed the terms of communication in the media ecosystem nowadays. Therefore, people can re-watch videos, news or other types of videos that they had missed anytime.

In addition, Walsh (2006, p.30) has stated that Internet site have the ability to combine text into complex structures for operating. One of the examples will be micro-blogging.

According to Educause (2009), 'micro-blogging is the practice of posting small pieces of digital content—which could be text, pictures, links, short videos, or other media—on the Internet. A user used micro-blogging as a quick tool to update current news and issues to the public. An example of micro-blogging would be on @mainstreammedia. It is a twitter account created by a media organization, which is used to deliver the current news to Malaysian citizens about things happened nowadays.

source: Twitter

In conclusion, the appearance of the new media trends has make better usage and ability in easier ways of enabling convenience to the audiences. So, citizens in Malaysia will be able to get all the current updates anytime and anywhere. 

References:

Educause, 2009, 7 Things You Should Know About Microblogging, viewed 8th April 2012, <http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7051.pdf>.

Naughton, J 2006, ‘Blogging and the emerging media ecosystem’, http://reuteursinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/about/discussion/blogging.html