d.New forms of media publishing

Naughton's (2006) 'Blogging and the emerging media ecosystem' have predicted that the new media would be more complex than the traditional media. Twitter is one of the new media publishing platform that incorporates micro-blogging. With the integration of mobile blogging into our lives, we could go online any time and any where to access the internet. Thus, it changes every aspect of the traditional media.

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Twitter users are only allowed to publish and hashtag news not more than 140 words. Due to that, information is short and also varies by the user's statuses. Johnson(2009)  stated 'this will lead to more news diversity and polarization at the same time.'.  Instead of waiting the next newspaper to be published, we could just enter a search term under the hashtag to know real time news. However, such news sources lack of credibility as Sambrook (cited in Bunz, 2009) stated information is different from journalism because it lacks of judgment, analysis and explanation. Nonetheless, the flaw of Twitter still does not affect the fact that Twitter provides real time information as compare to traditional media. 


Walsh (2006) stated that internet uses variety of mode and combine words and images in complex structures. Twitter is undeniably able to perform such structure with users posting pictures accompanied with captions. Harbison (2010) also stated that journalists are adopting Twitter real time nature for their advantage. With such adoption, news spread on Twitter are more reliable as news oraganistion now also have Twitter accounts that updates news in real time. It is no doubt that the significant change that Twitter bring about to journalism would be the real time nature of news spread. 

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Reference list
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