New Forms of Media Publishing

As time goes by, more people is being expose to various new media trends, with different names for different usage blogs. New forms of media publishing trends are like Youtube, Facebook, Twitter and some other online newspaper resources like The Star Online.

Facebook
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Looking at Facebook for instance, based on report from NewMediaAge.com Facebook has been the dominating new media since 2004, recording a 22.81m users in September 2009. (Howell, N. 2009) Mark Zuckerberg’s social network has done tremendous job in connecting people and allowing users to communicate, allowing everyone to share information and view others’ data. Twitter allows the users to post short shoutouts instead of long blog posts, breaking them into smaller elements to be posted, (Iskold, A. 2007) is also a rapidly growing trend of media publishing source.

Facebook vs Twitter
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Top 20 Social Media Sits Stats
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No doubt the new media trends had attracted more internet users and also aided people’s life, they also brought issues that effects the media community, free speech and censorship are always vital issues among online media sources. As users are allow to upload pictures to the site, pictures that uploaded might contain discrimination or offensive aspects that will offend others. (Covelly, E. 2010) There are also cases that users creating groups or posting wall posts, attacking other individuals and being charged. (Anderson, J. 2009) Rules and regulation issues regarding privacies are overflowing too. Reporting from The Wall Street Journal, data of Facebook users are shared among advertisers, such as uploaded photos; without any notifications or permissions from the uploader or the owner. (Mills, C. 2010) This issue had gone so serious that some users closed down their accounts due to rights violations. (Mills, C. 2010) As stated by John Naughton, internet does not approach unless users choose to take the first step. (2006) Thus it is vital for users to pay more attention to the new media trend.

Reference List:

1. Naughton, J. 2006, 'Blogging and the emerging media ecosystem,' viewed 27 September 2010 < http://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/about/discussion/blogging.html >

2. Howell, N. 2009, 'Social Media Trend,' New Media Age, 5 November, viewed 27 September 2010 < http://www.nma.co.uk/features/social-media-trends/3006222.article >

3. Covelly, E. 2010, 'Pros and cons of MySpace and Facebook,' viewed 27 September 2010 < http://www.helium.com/items/1687932-does-my-boss-see-my-profile?page=3 >

4. Mills, C. 2010, 'Facebook Privacy Issues Getting Worse,' 25 May, viewed 27 September 2010 < http://www.webpronews.com/blogtalk/2010/05/25/facebook-privacy-issues-getting-worse >

5. Anderson, J. 2009, 'Free speech on Facebook doesn't always come easy,' 6 May, viewed 27 September 2010 < http://www.mndaily.com/2009/05/06/free-speech-facebook-doesn%E2%80%99t-always-come-easy >

6. Iskold, A. 2007, 'Evolution of Communication: From Email to Twitter and Beyond,' 30 May, viewed 27 September 2010 < http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/evolution_of_communication.php >