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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.