New Forms of Media Publishing.

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New forms of media publishing can be categorized in many ways, we are vastly exposed with sorts of online inputs such as online newspaper, blogs, Facebook and recently Twitter. Thus, what we absorb nowadays are mainly one the online source, as we can see about conventional newspaper, the media trying to adapt into this new segment which comprise a broader viewer may not only in Malaysia but also worldwide. For example, The Star Online and New Straits Times Online are online versions of well known newspapers in Malaysia.

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The viewer have tendency to browse on the online newspaper often because it is the easiest way to load ourselves with the latest news and updates similar as what we get from the newspaper with various colors and layout. (Walsh, 2006) mentioned, images have other effects that are different from words particularly at affective, aesthetic and imaginative levels. Online newspaper offers variety scopes of news you get politic issue, entertainment and sports just in one click. Everywhere writing now involved close attention to typeface choices and layout (Kress & Leeuwen, 1998). The result of online newspaper is higher because it is more appealing to catch with colorful website and sequence of the layout compared to the conventional newspaper.

YOUTUBE SENSATION

Thus, another example of new forms of media publishing is the latest phenomenon that happens recently by Psy which is a singer from Korea. His amusing dancing steps has captured the audience attention worldwide. The viewers of his music video indicate over 1.5 billion viewers.

Reference list:

Kress, G Leeuwen, TV 1998, Front pages : (the critical) analysis of newspaper layout, in Approaches to media discourse, eds A Bell, P Garrett, Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 186-219.

Walsh, M. 2006,” ‘Textual shift’: Examining the reading process with print, visual and multimodal texts,” Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, vol.29, no.1, p.24-37.

 newspaper layout.”