Journalism on the Internet
The common forms of media in today's world each have both advantages and
disadvantages. The Internet has been around for an almost equal amount of time
as most of them, but only recently has it become a popular way of retrieving
information. The Internet takes the best of all other medium and combines them
into a very unique form. The Internet is the best way to retrieve information.
This combination of paper publishing, TV, radio, telephones, and mail is the
future of communications. The internet has several types of journalism which can
be defined into three sections. One section is online magazines, online
broadcasting, and other online services. The next group is resource files and
web pages. The third is discussion groups/forums and e-mail. I will investigate
these areas of the net, showing the advantages and disadvantages of each in
comparison to the conventional forms.
In order to understand what all these topics are you must first understand
what the internet is. The simple answer is that it is computers all over the
globe connected together by telephone wires. It was first made by the military,
"No one owns the Internet", to have a network with no centre. That way it could
never be destroyed by nuclear war. Since then, universities have used it and it
has evolved into what it is today. It is a library that contains mail, stories,
news advertising, and just about everything else. "In a sense, freenets are a
literacy movement for computer mediated communication today, as public libraries
were to reading for an earlier generation." Now that the term "the net" is
understood lets look at some sections of the net.
An online magazine is a computer that lets users access it through the net.
This computer stores one or more magazines which users can read. "PC magazine
and other magazines are available on the Web" "Maclean's Magazine and Canadian
Business online; and Reuters' Canadian Newsclips." This form is much better... [continues]
The common forms of media in today's world each have both advantages and
disadvantages. The Internet has been around for an almost equal amount of time
as most of them, but only recently has it become a popular way of retrieving
information. The Internet takes the best of all other medium and combines them
into a very unique form. The Internet is the best way to retrieve information.
This combination of paper publishing, TV, radio, telephones, and mail is the
future of communications. The internet has several types of journalism which can
be defined into three sections. One section is online magazines, online
broadcasting, and other online services. The next group is resource files and
web pages. The third is discussion groups/forums and e-mail. I will investigate
these areas of the net, showing the advantages and disadvantages of each in
comparison to the conventional forms.
In order to understand what all these topics are you must first understand
what the internet is. The simple answer is that it is computers all over the
globe connected together by telephone wires. It was first made by the military,
"No one owns the Internet", to have a network with no centre. That way it could
never be destroyed by nuclear war. Since then, universities have used it and it
has evolved into what it is today. It is a library that contains mail, stories,
news advertising, and just about everything else. "In a sense, freenets are a
literacy movement for computer mediated communication today, as public libraries
were to reading for an earlier generation." Now that the term "the net" is
understood lets look at some sections of the net.
An online magazine is a computer that lets users access it through the net.
This computer stores one or more magazines which users can read. "PC magazine
and other magazines are available on the Web" "Maclean's Magazine and Canadian
Business online; and Reuters' Canadian Newsclips." This form is much better... [continues]
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