New forms of media publishing.

| at 1:09 PM

The line between what constitutes blogging and journalism is blurred and so too is the line that decides the degree to which normal journalistic ethics apply to bloggers(Colin, 2004). The term of media ecosystem means the relationship between weblogs and journalism. According to John Naughton (2006), the relationship is emerging between the new medium of blogging and more conventional print journalism which is beneficial to both sides.
 
 John Naughton (2006) concluded the new ecosystem will be richer, more diverse and immeasurably more complex because of the number of content producers, the density of the interactions between them and their products, the speed with which actors in this space can communicate with one another, and the pace of development made possible by ubiquitous networking. New media theory is an intellectual discipline that examines the nature, roles, and functioning of new media objects (that is, works) in their cultures. (Jeffrey Bardzell) the common new media types is web sites, multimedia, blogs, multimedia presentations.
 
According to Agathe Wiedemair (2010, the modern concept of pastoral power is of unique value, when applied to new media practices and social networking sites such as facebook. Facebook and the ability of its members to act as individuals within a collective serves this double-role as a simultaneously global yet self-involved form of virtual representation and communication. (Agathe Wiedemair, 2010)

References

Naughton, J 2006, Blogging and the emerging media ecosystem, viewed on 29/9/2010, retrieved from
<http://www.google.com.my/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CBsQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Freutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk%2Ffileadmin%2Fdocuments%2Fdiscussion%2Fblogging.pdf&rct=j&q=blogging%20and%20the%20emerging%20media%20ecosystem&ei=ypSkTMqXCoqIvgPxk7iHDQ&usg=AFQjCNFEM_IoINApK2_KXgbFdYFuJdQiPA&cad=rja>

Colin. 2004. The Ethics of Blogging, viewed on 29/9/2010, retrieved from
<http://www.felixsalmon.com/000240.php>

Agathe Wiedemair, 2010, Facebook Confessions: Pastoral Power in New Media Practices, viewed on 29/9/2010, retrieved from
<http://mastersofmedia.hum.uva.nl/2010/09/27/facebook-confessions-pastoral-power-in-new-media-practices/>

  • Digg
  • Del.icio.us
  • StumbleUpon
  • Reddit
  • RSS
Read Comments

Types of Blogging Communities & Methods to Build Blogging Communities.

| at 12:43 AM

This post is going to discuss the types of blogging communities and methods to build blogging communities. According to Arren (2009), blogging community as known as blogosphere is a collective community of several blogs which are online communities of several blogs connecting bloggers to other people.
 
To create a blog community, we have to network ourselves, know our community, retaining visitors, increasing comments, leveraging social media and have some advertisement networks. (LeMerle, R 2007)

There are several types of blogging communities which are Single Blog Community the first form of blog based community to emerge as readers begin returning to early bloggers' sites, commenting and getting to know not only the blogger, but the community of commentors. (White N, 2006) Next, Central Connecting topic Community is a community that arises between blogs linked by a common passion or topic. (White N, 2006) The last type of blogging communities is boundaries communities which are collections of blogs and blog readers hosted on a single site or platform. (White N, 2006)

I am going to discuss one structure of boundaries communities.  Example of this blogging community is MySpace.com. According to White N, (2006), often these communities have other tools such as discussion boards, social networking features, wikis and instant messaging built in. Power in boundaries communities is held in part by the ‘owner’ of the platform who can impose rules on the community, but power is exercised by bloggers in three typical ways. (White N, 2006)

References

Arren, 2009, Blogging Communities for the Blogging Enthusiast, viewed on 29/9/2010, retrieved from <http://www.webbusinesswiz.com/blogging/blogging-communities-for-the-blogging-enthusiast/>

LeMerle, R 2007, 10 step guide to building your blog community, viewed on 29/9/2010, retrieved from

<http://www.neodigitalist.com/2007/02/10-step-guide-to-building-your-blog-community/>.

White, N 2006, 'Blogs and community-launching a new paradigm for online community?', viewed on 29/9/2010, retrieved from

<kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial/blogs-and-community-%E2%80%93-launching-a-new-paradigm-for-online-community>

  • Digg
  • Del.icio.us
  • StumbleUpon
  • Reddit
  • RSS
Read Comments

Classification of Blogs & Opinion about the Most Appropriate Classification approach.

| at 11:43 PM

           This post is going to discuss about different types of blogs. The term “blogs” is a shortened form of "web logs." (Sherry Holetzky, 2010) The current size of the blogosphere is currently uncountable, we could imagine how many blogs are created in our world. The most common way to classify a blog is using tags. According to the research, tag expansion helped to improve the recall of blog classification with the price of precision degradation. (Aixin Sun, Maggy Anastasia Suryanto and Ying Liu, 2007)


           According to the research paper (Teh Phoey Lee Phoebe, 2007), blogs can be categorized by media, device, genre and legal status of publisher. Based on category by media, a blog that contains video clips is called a video blog, or vlog. For example, youtube.com. Blogs with shorter posts and mixed media types are called tumblelogs. The ones comprising links are called a linklog, which is crazyting4ever.blogspot.com. A site containing a portfolio of sketches is called a sketchblog, while one comprising photos is called a photolog. (Teh Phoey Lee Phoebe, 2007)


          According to Teh Phoey Lee Phoebe(2007), category by device, a blog written through a mobile device, such as a mobile phone or PDA, is called a moblog. Some blogs focus on a particular subject, such as political blogs, travel blogs, fashion blogs, project blogs, or legal blogs. While not a legitimate type of blog, one used for the sole purpose of spamming is known as a Splog. (Teh Phoey Lee Phoebe, 2007)


          In my opinion, there are many blogs are combinations of styles. The blog will be much more attractive this way, it clarify the main message that the writer want to send to the audience more clearly and in different ways as in videos, audios, pictures and words.


References


Aixin Sun, Maggy Anastasia Suryanto, Ying Liu, 2007, Blog Classification Using Tags: An Empirical Study, viewed on 29/9/2010, retrieved from

<http://www.springerlink.com/content/e81u305x255n5p11/>





Sherry Holetzky, 2010, What are Some different Types of Blogs?, viewed on 29/9/2010, retrieved from

<http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-some-different-types-of-blogs.htm>





Teh Phoey Lee Phoebe, 2007, An Insight of blogosphere over the Internet, School of Management and Information Technology, UCSI, Malaysia.

  • Digg
  • Del.icio.us
  • StumbleUpon
  • Reddit
  • RSS
Read Comments

Blogs as current Phenomenon & Benefits of Blogging to the Community

| at 10:30 PM

According to the 2009 State of the Blogosphere survey demonstrates, the growth of the blogosphere's influence on subjects ranging from business to politics to the way information travels through communities continues to flourish. (Jennifer McLean, 2009) It reported that the size of blogosphere is growing in a speedy rate. It is very difficult to figure out what is the size of the current blogosphere. According to Lee Hopkins (2009), in Technorati’s own “About us” page that the number of blogs they were following was about 200 million. We can only figure out the current size of blogosphere by ourselves.

There is a research that makes a comparative, data-based study of the conceptual metaphors in the English and Malay bloggers’ discourse on social-political issues in Malaysia. They concluded that there are differences in the metaphors of used in the Chinese blogs as opposed to the Malay blogs but there is no proof or argues that the use of the metaphors in the blogs is conscious.

According to the book "Blogging and Democratization in Malaysia: Anew Civil Society in the Making", the government of Malaysia clamped down on bloggers in the period before the 2008 elections and recount examples of bloggers rapidly mobilizing support in response to police action. The importance of the comments in blogs was highlighted when a blogger was arrested because of a comment left in his blog; in a countermove, a police report was filed against the Prime Minister because of objectionable content in comments on his website. (J. Tan & I. Zawawi,2009)

In my opinion, the benefits of those prevalent blogs to the community is to knowledge those people that are not concern with the sensitive issue that will cause the blogs prevalent in Malaysia. It is not really benefits if I look into form a point of view of Malaysian. We are always illegal to touch any sensitive issues because the government needs to maintain a peaceful life between different races, cultures and religions in Malaysia.

References

Jennifer McLean , 2009, State of the Blogosphere 2009 Introduction, viewed on 20/9/2010, retrieved from
<http://technorati.com/blogging/article/state-of-the-blogosphere-2009-introduction/>

Lee Hopkins, 2009, Technorati and the size of the blogosphere: it can’t be THAT hard to figure out, surely?!, viewed on 20/9/2010, retrieved from

<http://www.leehopkins.net/2009/12/26/technorati-and-the-size-of-the-blogosphere-it-cant-be-that-hard-to-figure-out-surely/>

Imran Ho-Abdullah, Ruzy Suliza Hashim, 2009, The Metaphors of Malaysian Social-Political Bloggers: A Shared
Cognitive Schema?, European Journal of Social Sciences, Volume 8, Number 3.

J. Tan & I. Zawawi, 2009, Book review: Blogging and Democratization in Malaysia, viewed on 20/9/2010, retrieved from

<http://www.prachatai.com/english/node/1295>

  • Digg
  • Del.icio.us
  • StumbleUpon
  • Reddit
  • RSS
Read Comments

What is a good PowerPoint Presentation ?

| at 9:25 PM

This post is going to discuss about a good PowerPoint Presentation. As a mass communication student, presentations place an important part in my major subject. According to Dr. Joseph Sommerville, PowerPoint slideshows is expected to become the norm of visual of most of the presentations because they are quick to produce, easy to update and effective to inject visual interest into the presentation.
A good document which helps readers read efficiently and also enable to reader to point out the most important content of the document. (Putnis, Peter & Petelyn & Rosyln, 1996) It also proved that a good PowerPoint Presentation is based on who we design the PowerPoint and how we present it. So, what is a good PowerPoint Presentation?
According to Wendy Rusell, I had figured out a few main points that should be improved based on my group's last week summary presentation. The first part, Wendy Rusell stated we should keep important information near the top of the slide because often the bottom portions of slides cannot be seen from the back rows because heads are in the way. Do not use too many words or sentences in a presentation slide, but simply write your title or course outline. (Zane L Marquez, 2010) Yet, we just place in all related information together in a slide and we did not really concern on the arrangement of information in a slide that would make our slides easy to follow in our presentation.




The second part, According to Wendy Rusell, we should simplify and limit the number of words on each screen. Nevertheless, in our presentation we used more than three bullets per slide and there are not much surrounding space to make the readers to read easier.  Too much or too little space will upset the balance and the proportion of the page (Reep, 2006)




References
 Zane L Marquez, 2010, How to Make a Good Powerpoint Presentation, viewed on 20/9/2010, retrieved from
 <http://ezinearticles.com/?How-to-Make-a-Good-PowerPoint-Presentation&id=4313178>

Dr. Joseph Sommerville, The Seven Deadly Sins of Powerpoint Presentations, viewed on 20/9/2010, retrieved from

<http://entrepreneurs.about.com/cs/marketing/a/7sinsofppt.htm>



Russell, W, 10 tips for creating successful business presentations, viewed on 20/9/2010, retrieved from  
<http://presentationsoft.about.com/od/powerpointinbusiness/tp/bus_pres_tips.htm>


Putnis, Peter & Petelin, Roslyn 1996, ‘Writing to communicate,’ in Professional communication, Prentice Hall, Sydney, pp.223-263


Reep,Diana C 2006, ‘ Principles of document design,’ in Technical Writing , Pearson Edu, Inc, New York ,pp.133-172

  • Digg
  • Del.icio.us
  • StumbleUpon
  • Reddit
  • RSS
Read Comments
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)