What's new media, and what's new in writing for it? For me, the answer is efficiency and convenience, which, lead to a bigger chance for the communication between the 'author' and 'reader'.
The efficiency comes from both the participation from the large amount of internet users and the connectivity of it. When using internet, you can write anytime and then publish it immediately and the everyone in the world might be reading it. Time is so obviously precious for people living a a digital era. So it is understood what's the quickest is most of the time the best. And since revealing one's own opinion to society is always the human need. This erase of limit of authority becomes a huge encouragement for people to write. At the same time, it is much easier for people to get into trouble for speaking out comments in real life than online. The safety of secrecy is attractive.
Even though so often this characteristic might get twisted and creates difficulties of distinguish truth and false, it does provide us internet users with huge information database. Hence, it is definitely a real powerful tool if there's something you want the world to know.
In the web page, we have hyperlinks and search engine which can takes you anywhere you want. The author may put in hyperlink for his or her audience's reference. And the readers can also freely go grab extra information based on maybe just several keywords which arose their interest. There's no boundary of learning in internet and no more physical restrictions such as time, distance or money.
The efficiency comes from both the participation from the large amount of internet users and the connectivity of it. When using internet, you can write anytime and then publish it immediately and the everyone in the world might be reading it. Time is so obviously precious for people living a a digital era. So it is understood what's the quickest is most of the time the best. And since revealing one's own opinion to society is always the human need. This erase of limit of authority becomes a huge encouragement for people to write. At the same time, it is much easier for people to get into trouble for speaking out comments in real life than online. The safety of secrecy is attractive.
Even though so often this characteristic might get twisted and creates difficulties of distinguish truth and false, it does provide us internet users with huge information database. Hence, it is definitely a real powerful tool if there's something you want the world to know.
And the convenience of new media writing comes from many more aspects. In traditional media we accept information most likely linearly. We read words from newspaper and we watch videos on the TV. When we become interested in some secondary things mentioned in the main content we can not jump directly to it. But in new media writing this situation completely changes.
All these characters of writing in new media are for sure valuable. You can create a webpage, write a blog, tweets about your lunch, or update your Facebook status like crazy. But what's most important is that you're communicating with others, with your friends or strangers, with the world. The advantages of new media writing eventually leads to a future of read/write web (Web 2.0) which's built on the input from both the original content creators and the comments from the readers.
Internet is virtual, but the communication happen within is not. Real value and productivity always lie in the communication between human beings.
New media writing is enhancing both the efficiency and convenience of this type of communication on the whole. That's why I believe we should take it seriously in to account, and also enjoy it!;)
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