lookups,” the number one word of the year was “blogs” (Morse, Page 1). Their definition of a blog is “a web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by the writer” (Morse, Page1). This definition is inaccurate based on my research, as blogs are not always “personal” and can include more than one author. Throughout my research, many bloggers in the blogoshere have referred to websites as blogs that discuss business only, business and personal
Profitable Blog Topic Idea: How to Blog and Generate Profitable Blog Topic Ideas. This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to become a truly a professional blog writer. It will teach you how to choose the most important aspect of your blog, which is the blog’s theme or topic! Here is an inescapable fact: you will need to know how to choose the proper topic for your blog if you want to get enough followers for it to become profitable in the future. Most blog writers begin their blogs because
site, blog or video/photo sharing network. Blogging, in particular, has turned the table for news production which used to be a privileged profession for a number of traditional journalists but now has become the playground for numerous yet mushrooming bloggers, also known as citizen journalists. It is also worth noting that with the growing popularity of blogging as an alternative platform for delivering news and commentary, most journalists from conventional media have started to set up blogs either
The modern blog evolved from the online diary, where people would keep a running account of their personal lives. Most such writers called themselves diarists, journalists, or journalers. A few called themselves "escribitionists". The Open Pages webring included members of the online-journal community. Justin Hall, who began eleven years of personal blogging in 1994 while a student at Swarthmore College, is generally recognized as one of the earliest bloggers,[5] as is Jerry Pournelle.[citation needed]
As time has gone on political parties have begun to be less influential compared to what they once were, and media has become more and more dominant. While media has become more important, separate sources of information have begun to focus on different topics, or reporting more about one subject as compared to another. Certain news sources focus more on entertainment, some focus on global issues, and others focus on politics in the United States. From looking at different media outlets it is visible
Have Rights, Should Robots? and a blog post Tilikum has Died, But There’s Still Much We Can Do to Save Other Orcas. These two texts discuss the same topic, but are considered two completely different genres. Most people are aware of, and are able to distinguish the differences between a news article and a blog because these assigned genres are something everyone has come across at least once in their life. Namely, when examining the genre we refer to as a blog, it usually refers to a website or
Media manipulators and bloggers manipulate information to serve their own interest and the interest of their employer. The notion of information manipulation has been around throughout centuries and it has gradually evolved from newspaper to online blogging. The earliest form of information manipulation can be associated with William Randolph Hearst and his newspaper, New York Journal. Hearst’s New York Journal would unethically sensationalize stories during the Spanish- American War to not only
Technology have transformed human lifestyle more rapidly in the last 10 years than ever before, it seems that the more tech savvy we become the faster technology improves (The Center of Technology : 2014). For communication this has been revolutionising. With the invention of the internet we now have created what is known as a ‘global village’ coined by Marshall McLuhan. It explains the idea that the world is considered to be closely connected through online communication thus being interdependent
the readers of my blog interested and hopefully encourage them to go and see Tonga for themselves, so they can have some of the wonderful experiences that I had. I learned how to write a blog and that there are many different types if blogs. I have grown immensely as a writer since I wrote a blog for my 2nd genre experiment. I have learned how to open up and to write exactly what is on my mind. I feel that I have been more aware of the audience of my paper since making my blog. Before doing this
ourselves in the midst of it. According to Baran and Davis (2012), the global village referrers to, “the new form of social organization that would inevitably emerge as instantaneous electronic media tied the entire world into one great social, political, and cultural system” (p.231). Since 1995, according to Internet World Stats (2014), the Internet has had a rapid growth from 16 million users to an average of 2,749 million as of March 2013 (http://www.internetworldstats.com/emarketing.htm). We
Free Speech through Anonymous A new age has developed and society is altering to adapt to new forms of technological communication. Through the use of the vast Internet through the use of social networking, image boards, blog sites and news media, society is altering in a way never seen before. Over the past couple of decades, the use of the Internet has expanded and grown exponentially as new technology develops. Since the introduction of social networking as well as alternative news media sites
Global media flows have changed our past understandings of culture in other countries. As global media flows come in many forms including; news, blogs and social media, it is easy for an individual to form a perception of how a country is and how it should be. However, global media flows allow journalists, bloggers or any individual with internet access the resources to project their own individual opinions and consequently even start a social movement. This is useful as we, the audience rarely have
Blogs and Attention Seeking Bloggers Web logs are one of the newest things popping up on the Internet. “What is a web log?” one may ask. Well, a web log, otherwise known as blog, is a place on the web where a person can go to write down anything that they feel like writing in an archive that they have created. It’s a personal site almost like a diary, but it’s posted where anybody can gain access. Wondering why somebody would want to put their lives online made me think that bloggers are just
alike. It is, however, difficult to concretely define as it is continually evolving (Socha & Eber-Schmid, 2012). New media encompasses digital-based content that is readily available at any time. Examples include the Internet, social media networks, blogs, mobile phones and video games (Wikimedia Foundation Inc., 2013). New media has increasingly been used since the mid-1990s to disseminate information, resulting in a media revolution. As more and more individuals gain first-hand access to information
With recent phenomena like blogs and wikis, the web is beginning to develop the kind of collaborative nature that its inventor envisaged from the start. CERN 2008 The participatory nature of blogging has significantly altered the global culture of communication and collaboration. Web 2.0 has incorporated the use of a diverse range of media for users to generate content which conveys personal opinions and which draws comments. Firstly this essay will discuss how citizen blogs are changing culture. Then
The Potential Impact of Blogs on Communication The advent of weblogs as instruments of Web-based conversation shall surely increase the exchange of news-related and academic information; probably not to the extent that books or newspapers have, but certainly in an open and accessible way. Gradually as they gain in popularity, blogs shall transform the field of journalism from one of complacent reporting to a more competitive and less elitist industry. Motivated individuals, with the use of their
Two Forms of Journalism Recent events such as the tsunami disaster (where blogs helped in covering the enormous size of the story), the war in Iraq (where blogs help to present both opinions of all parties involved), the Dan Rather's scandal, a CBS Evening News anchor who reported as authentic a series of forged documents about George W. Bush (where blogs were highly instrumental in exposing him) have all contributed to the growing popularity of citizen journalism. So, why is there a recent growth
The Internet and Rapidly Developing Technology The recent revolution of internet and dot-com boom has brought more people familiar to computers and the Internet. It seems like that we can hardly find our way through everyday life with out using or having an internet connected computer next to us. The way we think, live, and communicate was changed once for all with the invention of networked communication of computers. Computers are no longer a piece of machine that sits on top of our desk for
print newspapers, broadcast television, Internet, telephones, etc. Digital technology has allowed for far more possibilities for productivity than traditional methods before. Digital technology has given people the power to express themselves via blogs, social media sites, pictures, and other user-friendly programs. Digital technology has come a long way and constantly is being improved everyday. Due to the rising surge in digital technology, traditional mass media producers have changed to accommodate
sources and how they affect our understanding of the content. For my old media source I have chosen a news clip from the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric that deals with the ongoing Egyptian uprising. For my new media source I have chosen a video blog, or ‘vlog’, by an Egyptian man named Omar who discusses the crisis in Egypt from a personal point of view. Both media sources deal with the same topic, but result in different understandings of the crisis. Although both mediums focus on the same issue