Reflection

I've learned that there are many things that are taken for granted but are really important to make any publication doing well. Kress and Van Leeuwen (2001) states that semiotics still play a role in today's world of globalization where the difficulties and the ever dwindling lines that identifies a culture slowly fades into a westernize culture. When it comes to document design, everything from the placement to the content of the document is taken into thought and is critical in hitting the correct target audience. In today's healthy and growing world, one medium is never enough and this is also includes documents. When it comes to publication, every medium must come into play for more support the ideal and further gratify the needs of target audience.

Why Citizen Journalism turn to Citizen Paparazzi?

Source: AP 2008

Source: AP 2008

Citizen journalism is used to express a form of media that consent to the public to become journalist by reporting online (Tryemayne 2007, p. 240) while citizen paparazzi is not really a new concept, it is just taking picture using the cameraphones and videophones (Glaser 2005). The very famous incident that cause the citizen journalism to transform themselves intocitizen paparazzi was the London bombing. When the victims of the London bombing was in pain and suffering, digital cameras and videophone can be seen all over the place (Glaser 2005). Instead of helping the victims.The reason they take this pictures is to post it in their blogs, wikipedia and others. So that the picture will get good progress in their blog's credibility due to the fact that there is visual proof, according to Nielsen and Morkes (1997) the internet users mostly judge the web's credibility by looking at the quality of the web's content.In the book, the 'Text Shift: Examining the reading process print, visual, and multimodal texts', Walsh (2006) describe that "written part is only one part of the message, and no longer the dominant part" therefore they are determined to get the best pictures and why they are turning into the citizen paparazzi. If citizen journalist includes pictures in their document, it will make the reader's life easier according to Schriver, it is faster to search for a specific information by looking at the graphics instead of the prose.

Reference List:Glaser, M 2005, 'Did London bombings turn citizen journalists into citizen paparazzi?', Online Journalism Review, viewed 12 June 2008, http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/050712glaser/

Tremayne, M 2007, Blogging, Citizenship, and the Future of Media, Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group, New York

Morkes, J and Nielsen, J (1998), Applying Writing Guidelines to Web Pages, viewed on 10 June 2008http://www.useit.com/papers/webwriting/rewriting.html Schriver, KA 1997, 'The interplay of words and pictures', Dynamics in Document Design: Creating text for readers, Wiley Computer Pub, New York, ch. 6 pp. 361-441

Walsh, M 2006, The 'textual shift': Examining the reading process with print, visual and multimodal texts', Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 24-37

YouTube

YouTube videos have created numerous possibilities for anyone; you can upload video files and share it with anyone all around the world. It has already been reported by CNN that YouTube has reached to a massive 79 million of users and over 3 billion of videos been watched on YouTube.

Though this YouTube is the next big thing in the world but that does not mean that everyone is fine with their contribution to the world. Viacom, a media corporation has identified 190,000 unauthorized clips that are being played on YouTube. Source: AP 2008

Viacom disagreed and claimed YouTube allowed unauthorized copies of popular television programming and movies to be posted on its website and viewed tens of thousands of times. Such as MTV Unplugged, 27 Dresses P. S. I love you and others YouTube have open doors to many people all around the world. And people should be extra caution on what they post.

Blogging!!!

Source: AP 2008

Blog is used to communicate or just simply voicing out oneself. Creating a blog seems just so simple and easy. It is now fast to post anything, anytime, anywhere without the need to gain any consent of any reader; about the subject talked about, In Malaysia, if one’s reputation is affected by any kind of slanderous or libelous remarks by these unsatisfied bloggers for some reason or the other, only when the ‘offending act’ is witnessed by any third party can the offender be sued under the defamatory act.
Bloggers need to aware of the consequences that they may face in the future and be well-equipped to know that they are always accountable for whatever they say and post in their ‘supposedly’ personal blogs. Just recently, there was a case of well-known open-mindedly outspoken bloggers, Ahiruddin Attan who was sued by the New Strait Times Press that we claimed to be libelous. This can mean that many of us are not aware of the costs of being too blatantly honest and tend to assume that blogging is a place where is freedom of speech is recognized, when in actual fact this is only partially true.

Riverside, J. 2008,' Online Stock Forums', retrieved on 10 June 2008<http://ezinearticles.com/?Online-Stock-Trading-Forums&id=408429>

Do Website has Law?

source: AP 2008

A lot of people might believe that one can get away with posting anything on the internet but this is not true. Under the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission Act (1998), it is acknowledged that it is illegal to post anything that would be against the government or anything that endorse any issues that goes against the governments trust. This means that anyone that breaks this ruling will be head in disdain of the government and will be trialed in court. This is a strict and serious matter, where anything can be posted in the World Wide Web. Gate keepers are the people that scan throughout the web, looking for anything that could spell revolt against the country and from there action will be taken. Even simple pictures that are post could corrupt the reputation of an organization. From the New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/16/business/16pose.html), an Ellen Simonetti was fired from Delta Airlines for posting pictures of herself in company uniform posing in a inappropriate manner. After Ellen Simonetti was fired from her job, she went on to sue Delta Airlines for sexual discrimination and this further lead to a strong and painful lawsuit. There is always someone watching, the internet may be big but certainly not big enough.

Face Book

Today the latest trend is facebook, a program that allows users to meet other people online. More than 70 million people visit the site regularly. This makes this a new phenomenon, one where it can be further exploited to convey messages. It has become so popular that even politicians and major companies have associated themselves with it. Facebook, being an additional medium that tear downs the wall of communication, it’s also a medium to be in touch among peers. It has turn out to be so popular in this country that it’s become more of an everyday life or some would say a social activity. Being able to use third party software is its main magnetism of this software. Everything from games and interesting blogs are included in this social networking program. People have been turning to facebook to either look for a job or find people that are able of fitting the suitable preference. This has become a medium that is so influential and has so many people that are using it; this is essentially a gold source: Ap 2008 mine for everyone that can benefit from it.

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World Wide Web have Ethics?

There are different types of hate site that exist in the internet example hate sites dedicated towards Jorge W. Bush and Saddam Hussein and there are other hates sites that contain religious discrimination. The internet, which we use a tool of communication and knowledge has often being abuse and has become a vehicle of the worst human impulses, as reflected in the websites devoted to fomenting hatred and violence against a particular religion or ethnic groups by Jeffery Long (Unruh 2007), . BBC news (2004) has also stated that net is being used by racist and extremist groups trying to recruit new members and spread their message. Hindu American Community had filed a report against Christian hate site which force its ministry at teaching Christians. This is ethically wrong because everyone has the right to choose their own beliefs



Internet driving hate site surge 2004, 20 April 2004 BBC news, viewed on 12 June 2008http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3641895.stm

Unruh, B 2008, Christian 'hate sites' blasted by Hindus, World Net Daily, viewed on 12 June 2008http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55110

Reference

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Barger, Jorn (1999) Weblog resources FAQ. Robot Wisdom, September 1999 Retrieved December 11, 2001 from http://www.robotwisdom.com/weblogs/index.htm

Lasica, J.D. (2001) Weblogs: A New Source of News. Online Journalism Review, May 31, 2001.Retrieved December 11, 2001, from http://ojr.usc.edu/content/story.cfm?request=588

Kornblum, Janet (2001) Web writers are blogging on. USA Today, August 28, 2001 Tuesday, Final Edition.

Werbach, Kevin (2001) Triumph of the Weblogs. Eadventure, June 18, 2001. Retrieved December 11, 2001, from http://www.eadventure.com/conversation/article.afm?Counter=7444662

New Media's

Clearly, the label “Media Generation” fits today’s young people. More than any past generation, they have access to a wide, and still expanding, array of media in their homes, in their rooms, and, with the emer­gence of neatness, in their backpacks and pockets. They devote more time to me­dia than to any other single activity. Possibly, the emergence of digital media, their portability, and the kinds of meeting they have enabled are the powerful force behind the media. As high speed connectivity has expanded the communication capabilities of computers, whether in the form of desktop PCs, laptops, or, more recently, mobile phones, for today’s young people some form of digital instrument often serves as the gateway to both traditional and new forms of print media (newspapers, magazines, books, message boards, blogs, and chatrooms), audio media (both music and talk are streamed and downloaded), and audiovi­sual media (the latest mobile phone promo­tions trumpet anytime, anywhere access to and of course, each of these traditional “mass media” windows shares space concurrently with digital media’s enabling of new and extended interpersonal connec­tions e-mail, instant messaging, blogging, photo-sharing, or recording (some)one’s life on any of a number of social networking sites, such as Youtube and Facebook. Teenagers’ rapid adoption of these social functions not only attests to the importance to them of social contacts, but also seems to be changing at least large numbers of them from traditional media consumers into real time media critics and media producers of websites, fan fiction, YouTube clips, and more.

Current Blogosphere

Print VS Online

Research has shown that experienced readers have less need for signals, including headings, than unproven readers. Readers’ experience with the print medium may help them understand more with print-based text than with online text. Online text compared with print text is still in its infancy and is less established and common, and it may be more difficult to understand. Thus, signals may be able to offer more help to readers of online text, as suggested by Macedo-Rouet et al. (20).Across the online and print conditions, we see that high frequency headings reduced comprehension overall. Yet when we observe the disparity effect of heading frequency on readers of print-based readers versus online text, we further see that readers of print-based text are much less impacted by heading frequency than online readers. The online readers had significantly lower knowledge with the high frequency (i.e., a heading approximately every 100 words) versus medium frequency (i.e., a heading approximately every 200words) heading setting. If readers were confused with the online text to begin with, this feeling might have been complex by the high frequency headings as they tried to understand the flow of text. To elaborate, if we think about the differences in layout and legibility between print and online documents, we can further understand this idea. While readers of print based text can foresee upcoming information and “get the lay of the land,” readers of online text cannot physically spread out the pages to get a quick overview of the text, a difference that might affect conception and might description for the damaging effect of too many headings with online readers. Perhaps too much chunking of text works against creating a good, accurate representation and may negatively influence comprehension. Also, although screen resolution and legibility have improved overall, some of these factors could still affect online reading.

Blogging Community

The term "weblog" was first used by Jorn Barger on his Robot Wisdom website in 1997 (Auburn 1999, and Blood 2000) and is now used to describe personal websites that offer "frequently updated observations, news, headlines, commentary, recommended links and diary entries, generally organized chronologically." (Werbach 2001) While there are many websites that are frequently updated, "what makes a Weblog a Weblog is that it's organized chronologically and designed for short, frequent updates. In other words, Weblogs represent the online intersection of people and time. At this point, most blogs were websites that presented links to websites and news articles that the author found interesting, however blogs began to take new shapes as the medium began to gain mass. This process accelerated as the process of blogging became simpler with the advent of web-based tools such as Blogger, Pita, Groksoup, Diaryland, Live Journal and others. Online communities have sprung up around other media such as newsgroups, digital games, or chat rooms and have developed their own norms, unique to the medium and the culture of each group. Communities are about shared interest. Blogs are about individual interests. There are enough blogs out there that there are bound to be many bloggers who share the same interests, and thus are born communities of shared interest amongst blogs. Communities, whether blogs or otherwise, stick together because those common interests remain strong and the connections between the people engage the community members. For example, the fans of the band Phish developed social and behavioral norms on the Phish.net Usenet group that revealed shared values, which are also reflected in the list’s FAQ (Watson, 1997). Distinctive behavioral norms have also emerged in environments as diverse as a Usenet group for soap opera fans (Baym, 1998), a role-playing MUD (Schaap, 2002)

Current Phenomenon in Blogs and Effects on Community

There is no doubt that the phenomenon of blogging has changed the Internet while its effects are not as easily seen, as say the beginning of graphics on the World Wide Web, it does appear that blogging is reshaping the way we look at online publishing opportunities. The blogging phenomenon has great prospective through its influence to create social unity and to bring out support for members of a community. One example is the Damnthepacific.com blog, where is a collaboratively free-style blog created by a young man in Australia and a young woman in the United States. The couple uses the blog to tell the story of their current romance and ask their readers to contribute money so that the man can purchase an airline ticket to visit the woman in the United States. Remarkably, they have raised over $600 through voluntary offerings. While this example might be considered somewhat excessive, it does illustrate the power that blogging has to create social unity. All democratic governments are formed by the impractical desire to be guided by the united voice of its citizens and the convenient restrictions of consideration and debating the ideas posed by so many voices. It should be no revelation that as we start to ask questions about the role of the blogosphere in determining an ideal democratic liberty.

Purpose of this Blog

The purpose of this blog is to share my knowledge on issues of publication design to other viewer who has different conception or theories that can be exchange. My targeted audience will be student, working people and other who are involve in publication design. This blog is to those people who have different perception on publication design, and who like to share their ideas on how to create a better document designing in print and online.