Digital Writing verses Print.
For many decades, people have relied on print media such as newspapers to keep them informed about the news and the current events that are going on in the world they live in around them. Not until recently has television and the internet came out and became popular.
While print and digital media can both focus on similar subjects such as current events like politics and other information around the world, the format in which they are presented is very different. Many people mainly focus on the internet to give them their current news and events. Unlike print media, online media is not static or one way. When someone is reading a newspaper or magazine, they cannot input their opinions in the comment section, for them to have anything to say to the author they would have to write a hand written letter and mail it or make a phone call, whereas in online media someone can comment within seconds to the author and get a response. “Unlike print media, online media are not static, or one way, or at least it shouldn’t be” (Carroll).
Digital media has also changed the world in the sense that anyone can type anything on the internet for little to no cost at all, wherein print media, most newspapers charge a fee for you to write an article in their particular paper. Roger Parker wrote that the web “permits you to immediately communicate great amounts of selective and updated information in color at remarkably lost costs” (Parker 1997:4).
Blogging is another way for people to use a Digital media platform by putting their opinion and voices out to their readers. Blogging tends to offer more generating many different opinions by individual voices by expressions by many different people about their opinion on the subject matter that the blog is talking about.
A big key difference between digital and print media is in print media the readers can only read what is on the page, where as reading on the web, the writers can embody links, videos, and pictures to get their point across and make the point more clear. Journalism is storytelling with a purpose. “To provide people with information they need to know to understand the world” (Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel 2007:189). Writing for Digital media has forever changed the world and how people receive their information about the world we live in around us today.
Work Cited
Carroll, Brain, Writing For Digital Media. New York. Routledge. 2010. Print.
Roger C., Guide to Web Content and Design (New York: MIS Press, 1997.) “The State of News Media,” Journalism.org (2006), available: http://www.journalsim.org (accessed February 21, 2007).
Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel, The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect (New York: Three Rivers Press, 2007).
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