New forms of media publishing.

Screenshot of Lonelygirl15

The trend of blogging is now getting more and more popular. Thanks to the invention of internet, this benefits us to share our freedom of speech, or even broadcast on them. Years before blog was popular, it is hard to voice out public’s opinion regarding government issues. Mainstream media is the only way to attain information about government, but government interference of various restrictions for publication, (such as Printing Presses and Publications Act 1984, Defamation Act 1957, Sedition Act 1948, Official Secret Act 1972, etc) have resorted the publishing of certain uncovered stories.

YouTube is definitely leading the way which enables registered users to upload videos and share it with everyone by internet streaming. Registered members can create their own vlog that talking about their ideas and opinions, and post it up in YouTube. YouTube is the largest platform that host videos blogging or vlog. Walsh (2006) also opines that a textual shift is taking place from the monomodal to multimodal. Multimodal includes different type of communications such as images, video, prose and audio. YouTube functioned as a platform for several organizations, performing artists to promote their causes. This can be a good tactic since almost all the net users at least visited YouTube website for once. There are also others online newpapers like News Strait Times online, which have altered the roles of the communication.

Vlog

Nowadays, vlog is used widely to deliver messages. Vlog simply saying is a video blog, where people are able to share their idea through video with each other. For example, Lonelygirl15, a web series which narrated by a YouTube user that talking about her troubles in front of the webcam. It gained quite few followers that was curious whether it is a drama or for real. At the end, it was proven that character is usually an actress called Jessica Rose.

Moblog

Moblog is also one of the latest forms of media publishing. It is maintained by mobile device such as cell phone or PDA (Personal Digital Assistance). Moblog also known as mobile blog and with moblog, bloggers are able to update their blog when they are away from computer and to keep updating readers (Turn any blog into a moblog - just like that! 2004). Recently, international search engine, Google, is adding moblog as one of the blog’s application services. Several entertainment productions are also aiming the moblog as a market to promote their mobile TV, it is predicted that moblog will bring big income in future.

References:

• Turn any blog into a moblog - just like that! 2004, online, retrieved 17^th November 2009, from http://blog.flickr.net/2004/07/06/turn-any-blog-into-a-moblog-just-like-that/.
• Walsh, M 2006, 'Textual shift: examining the reading process with print, visual and multimodal texts', in Australian Journal of Language and Literacy,vol. 29, no.1, pp. 24 - 37.