Screen vs. print document design

There are some of the major topics for a better understanding of the difference between the web document designs and print document designs which are the layout, colour and audiences (Miller, 2011).

source: http://css-tricks.com/4655-print-design-to-web-design/

Miller (2011) explains the importance of layout in both the designs as the main target is to use elements of design such as shapes, lines and more, effectively. However the difference occurs when it comes to space where the print documents measure by inches and web documents by pixels. Moreover while the print design layout is definite of its ability of usage of space the screen layout should be designed in a way that it will look great on every size of monitors.

source: http://css-tricks.com/4655-print-design-to-web-design/

For colours of both the web and printed documents designs, Miller (2011) expresses that it is essential recognize the colour models and spaces which are RGB, CMYK and HSV. In print designs, it is helpful to know the difference in colours on screen and on paper while web designs should consider colours from monitor to monitor.

source: http://www.fashionfame.com/2011/06/anne-hathaway-covers-harpers-bazaar-august-2011/

source: http://www.crazyleafdesign.com/blog/build-your-own-free-website-with-wix-10-gorgeous-examples/

Lastly, in order to grab the audiences’ attention on the sales products such as newspapers or magazines, the print document design should be as catchy as possible with the limited space to entice the consumers with the limited space, for instance the cover of a magazine. Hence taking the advantage of physical approaches in texture and shape would help to create the successful effectiveness of design. On the other hand, it is significant for the site to keep the audience as long as possible using web designs. Some of the useful tools to attract the audience would be direct links to the site, visual images and animations, sounds, catchy titles and interactivity.

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Reference:

Miller, E 2011, ‘Designing For Printing vs. The Web’, About.com, viewed 29 August 2011, http://graphicdesign.about.com/od/printvsweb/a/print_vs_web.htm

New forms of media publishing

The new form of media communication, such as the internet, has been rapidly replacing the traditional forms of media like TV, newspapers and radios, with its ability of prompt publications and sharing of information. Moreover a lot of people find it more favourable because, unlike the new form of media, the traditional form is a one-way communication.

In fact, Jay Rosen, the journalism professor of New York University, supports this by explaining that the printed newspapers being altered into digital media, has helped the costs of getting information cheaper, thus increasing the participants with more ideas. Furthermore, regardless of the location, media consumers can now easily get the information using new social media tools on internet (Ingram, 2011).

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An example of the social media tools is Twitter. Steven Levy of Wired magazine explains how twitter has been impacting greatly on the publishing media with the fact of how user-oriented and real time it can be, and Levy also expressed that social media tools such as Facebook and Twitter are becoming more important to the community (Harper, 2009).

source: http://it-sector.blogspot.com/2010/04/and-still-they-hurt.html

The affordance theory is claimed by Gibson (Learning-Theories, 2011) that the world not only being recognized by the shapes of objects and relationships, but the perception making the action.

This theory has hence proved the significance of social media tools such as Twitter where anyone can share the information online anywhere at any time, altering communication in a new media ecosystem.

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Reference:

Harper, RA 2009, ‘The Social Media Revolution: Exploring the Impact on Journalism and News Media Organizations’, Student Pulse, viewed 28 August 2011, http://www.studentpulse.com/articles/202/1/the-social-media-revolution-exploring-the-impact-on-journalism-and-news-media-organizations

Ingram, M 2011, ‘Is the internet making journalism better or worse? Yes’, Gigaom, viewed 29 August 2011, http://gigaom.com/2011/07/21/is-the-internet-making-journalism-better-or-worse-yes/

Learning Theories 2011, ‘Affordance Theory (Gibson)’, Learning-Theories.com, viewed 28 August 2011, http://www.learning-theories.com/affordance-theory-gibson.html

Explain briefly types of blogging communities & methods to build blogging communities. Then, discuss the structure of one blogging community in brief

Garza claims that for a blog to be successful and profitable, establishing a blogging community, which shares thoughts, interests and discussions within the blog, is essential. Moreover Garza suggests 3 tips for creating a blogging community: to respond and encourage comments, use guest posting and intercommunication between the blogger and the audience.

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

The article ‘Blogs and Community’ of Nancy White, a well-known specialist, was re-posted in Robertson’s blog, The Knowledge Tree. White (2006) has explained three main types of communities: single blog centric, topic centric and boundaried communities.

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

One blog centric community

The blog is owned by one owner or an organization, allowing the readers and commentors of the blog to identify the author and inter-communicate with one another. However the readers and commentors of this blogging community are not able to change the subject matter of the blog.

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

Topic Centric Community

This community is established due to the rise of the same passion, interests or subject matter among the followers of the blog. Furthermore, the identity of centric community blog does not rely upon one blog but dispersed to the community allowing them to have more different perspectives unlike the one blog centric communities.

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

Boundaried Community

This community is organized in a form of collection of blogs operates in one platform which generally works in a registry format as a boundary. Although the identity of centric communication is owned by the owner of the site, the power is seized by the postings of the bloggers and recognition of the site among the social networks. An example of this community would be MySpace where a log-in process is to be made for joining the community which allows interconnection among the bloggers by linking with one another.

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Reference:

White, N 2006, ‘Blogs and Community – launching a new paradigm for online community?’, The Knowledge Tree, viewed 28 August 2011, http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial/blogs-and-community-%E2%80%93-launching-a-new-paradigm-for-online-community

Bibliography:

Garza, P, ‘Three Tips for Creating a Blogging Community’, viewed 28 August 2011, http://www.icantinternet.org/2011/08/three-tips-for-creating-a-blogging-community/

Classification of blogs & opinion about the most appropriate classification approach

source: http://www.smartonlinestrategy.com/blog.html

There are uncountable amount of blogs in the world today, all of which are classified into variety types of blogs in both the content wise and the styles used to present those contents.

source: http://blog.naver.com/skygood5?Redirect=Log&logNo=140132777609&topReferer=http://cafeblog.search.naver.com&imgsrc=20110627_66/skygood5_1309150140950za2TF_JPEG/4.jpg

Simons (2008) demonstrated the classification of different types of blogs to categories of pamphleteering, digest, advocacy, popular mechanics, exhibition, gatewatcher, diary, advertisement and the news blogs. Moreover Simons (2008) then came up with the analysis and furthermore explanations of each category. This type of classifying many different types of blogs was reasonably well-organized and easily understandable due to the examples supporting the clarification of each blog type.

On the other hand, Madhavan (2008) indicates the categorization in presentation slides into 12 types of blogs such as sanity, identity, vanity, humanity, and professional blogs and so on.

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However, despite of the more attractive form of classification system Madhavan presented using the visual communication, images, and simpler textual contents, Simon’s taxonomy seemed more informative. Although Simon’s explanation of each type of blogs might look uninteresting, it is more precisely comprehensible.

In addition, blog types can be segregated according to the subject matters, as personal, political, sports blogs and more (Newsbyblog.com, 2011), and to the media types such as vlog, linklog, sketchlog, photolog and so on (Mkartina, 2011).

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Reference:

Madhavan, N 2008, ‘Taxonomy of Blogs – A Media Perspective’, Slidshare, viewed 27 August 2011, http://www.slideshare.net/delhibloggers/taxonomy-of-blogs-june-7

Mkartina 2011, ‘Process of Photosynthesis’, Author Stream, viewed 27 August 2011, http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/mkartina-955732-process-of-photosynthesis/

News by Blog 2011, 'Types of Blogs', Newsbyblog.com, viewed 27 August 2011, http://www.newsbyblog.com/types-blogs-comprehensive-overview.html

Simons, M 2008, ‘Towards a Taxonomy of Blogs’, Austrlian Policy Online, viewed 27 August 2011, http://www.apo.org.au/commentary/towards-taxonomy-blogs-0

Blogs as current phenomenon & benefits to the community

source : http://carlabradman.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/exploring-the-property-blogosphere/

As traditional media - prints and televisions - faced its limitations in, for instance, sharing more information quickly and offering engagement opportunities to the people, the easier-and-faster digital media has now become a general trend throughout the world (Tsai, 2009).

The state of blogosphere was studied among the blog users in 2008 by Technorati. The number of blogs tracked has been increasing in chronological order since 2004, resulting 133 million blogs in 2008 with 10.4 new blog posts per second (Winn, 2009).

source: http://technorati.com/blogging/article/state-of-the-blogosphere-introduction/

Tsai (2009) explains that this rapid increase of blogging has been accelerated by easily participative and prompt in sharing information of the social media tools such as Facebook, Youtube, Twitter and etc. Moreover, with the ability to have dynamic conversations, it has also become a general trend globally.

The study of the Technorati also stated that the Asian bloggers are more motivational and willing to expose their feelings and stories than the European bloggers who prefer to confront (Winn, 2009).

Source: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1905125,00.html

In the year of 2009, twitter has been used for serious issues in Iran for president election protests. The ability to share information in a easy and quick ways, and in real time, it has been an ideal for the mass protest movement enabling twitterers to use hashtags(#) in front of the main word of postings to unite and raise their voices (Grossman, 2009):

Woman says ppl knocking on her door 2 AM saying they were intelligence agents, took her daughter

Ashora platoons now moving from valiasr toward National Tv staion. mousavi's supporters are already there. my father is out there!

we hear 1dead in shiraz, livefire used in other cities RT

source: http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1904208_1899173,00.html

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Reference:

Grossman, L 2009, ‘Iran Protests: Twitter, the Medium of the Movement’, Age 17 June, viewed 26 August 2011, http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1905125,00.html

Tsai, E 2009, ‘3 Ways to Capitalize on the Destruction of Traditional Media and Embrace Social Media’, viewed 26 August 2011, http://www.designdamage.com/3-ways-to-capitalize-on-the-destruction-of-traditional-media-and-embrace-social-media/

Winn, P 2009, ‘State of the Blogosphere: Introduction’, Technorati, 21 August, viewed 26 August 2011, http://technorati.com/blogging/article/state-of-the-blogosphere-introduction/