The Difference Between Traditional Media And Digital Media

Media is all around us, sometimes without us even noticing it. It is our morning newspaper, our favorite TV show, the radio on the way to work, the billboard next to the highway, it is everywhere and it is impossible to escape from it. Individuals utilize media to further their own interests. Media has been rapidly changing, adapting, modifying. New media is what is referred to more commonly as digital media. It involves things such as CD’s, virtual reality, the internet, digital photography, etc. But the real distinction between traditional media and digital media is the distribution of the content rather than the production. A text that is written online is referred to as digital media, the same text printed in a paper newspapers is known
A recent study done by Pew Research, showed that 47 percent of Facebook users get their news from this platform, and an overall 30 percent of the American population read the news on Facebook. This number varies, however, between people who heavily read the news and ones that only occasionally follow them (Mitchell, Kiley, Goottfried, & Guskin, 2013). The biggest difference between traditional news and the news that is available on social media is the fact that users are able to comment, to discuss and to share their opinions not only with other users but also with the authors of the content. This type of user engagement is also giving light to many activities, such as group discussions, and feedback which improves the content available on the net. The public are no longer just consumers of media but are now in control of
The most notable one to this day is the Egyptian Uprising in 2011, sometimes labeled as the “Twitter Revolution” or “Facebook Revolution”. This was the first time when social media and online tools were used to organize the population and successfully bring down a dictator with such a colossal global exposure. This gave way too many other uprisings in the Arab world, the revolts spread with rapid speed. It would be unwarranted to say that social media alone was responsible for instigating these political protests, but it cannot be denied that their success was in part due to the digital media's wide reach and the organizational capabilities that they were able to provide. Social media are tools used to lower the costs of organization, recruitment of participants (Papic & Noonan, 2011) elements that before would be unnecessarily long and involve a complicated process. Social media was used to post pictures, videos and live content that was able to be streamed all around the world. Independent bloggers wrote articles that talked about the news that were not available through broadcast