Web 2.0 & Media

Web 2.0 is an opensource for all citizens to exercise their democratic rights without misuse. To me, the constitution of web 2.0 reads, ‘We, the people of e-space, having solemnly decided to represent the cyber world into sovereign, temporal, democratic, republic, and to secure to all its citizens In plain, web 2.0 is a citizens / Net users driven world. It has following features : Network as platform User driven / controlled contents A rich, interactive, easy to use interface primarily based on AJAX technology Social networking Aspects eleven Connection Between Mobile and Site Any web site based primarily on web 2.0 idea has plenty of scope for users.

Briefly democracy is the main feature of web 2.0. So, Web 2.0 is ‘For the people, Of the people, and By the people’. Web 2.0 implies Citizen journalism. As web 2.0 popularizes citizen journalism and more folks are becoming ‘public writers’, there’s a worry that journalism as a distinct profession is beginning to become tougher to sustain. The limits between ‘professional’ and ‘amateur’ performance are breaking down till web 1.0, Web was kind of treated like print media in digital form. But the technology advancement has given the opportunity to release the total potential of the web. Today, Web is known as the strongest medium, even stronger than papers and Televisions. According to a study, majority of children surf Net for a very long time than sitting noiselessly in front of the ‘Idiot Box’. Why? * Net is one stop place for both motion photos (Television) and literary texts (Newspapers) * Net offers a place for eleven interactions * Internet Today offers a lot of spaces for users’ to participate (web 2.0) briefly Web serves everything you wish for! Under these circumstances, one can never weaken the remit of Net at time when the wave of web 2.0 is floating across. It’s high time to recognize the prospects of Internet as critical media, which appears to be dominating print and visible media (Televisions). While Televisions keep growing at their own pace, print media (papers, mags, for example.) may probably to face a tougher challenge from Web . I won’t forecast how long papers will remain.

But I feel assured in envisioning the Net will continue to demolish the broadcast world. And with the appearance of new technologies ( WEB 2.0 AJAX ), creating multimedia ads within internet pages will make online promoting nearer to the very efficient TV and radio market technique. Flash and JavaScript have added visible interactivity and scripted database functions fill the web with greater opportunities than even Television and radio.

Journalism or Literature

“I write well. Should I go for Literature or Journalism? This was the question I was faced up to with since I was fourteen and thought I could do well if I took up writing as a profession. By the point it was time to select between the 2 apparently congruent fields, a new three year BSc program in Mass Media had newly been introduced in Indian colleges, and I just joined the swarming masses of future’s trained advertisers and journalists. The 1st class in journalism and I knew, O God! This isn’t where I belong! The opening lesson laid down obviously how unfit a 19-year-old, dreamy-eyed, book-loving fantasist was in the ‘realities of actuality’. My story-writing abilities had no result with the story-writing of a paper. In reality, with small room for creativeness, there wasn’t any place at all for imagination. No wordplay, no symbolism, no flowery descriptions, not even a little safe subjectivity. The most worrying difference between a fictional article and a paper report, for me, was the elemental style in which the 2 are routinely presented. Those meaty pieces of info that I might have ordinarily kept for the last or spattered here and there to keep the suspense building and make my story fascinating, needed to be given out in the lead paragraph and leave the uninteresting chances and ends for the remainder of the article. They call it the reversed pyramid structure.

To me, it was actually the murder of all appeal. Of course, they have their reasons why papers agree on such a dry, uninspired style of writing. You know, you’d be worth zilch or just about nothing (for no less than you do not have messy grammar, we could do with difficult vocabulary) if you used to be a gold-medalist Master of English Literature.

But, if you can write ‘crisp’, bone-dry, unimaginative stories with ‘working knowledge’ of the language, then you’re in some demand ( however only if you’re not so money-minded. Patience teaches you penury is a great virtue. ).

No, it was not a total waste of 3 years, this degree course in Journalism.

There’s another offshoot of journalism where the guidelines of writing are slightly relaxed and one can select about any style. It is known as ‘feature writing’. These are ‘newsworthy’, human-interest stories with the liberty to express your perspective, but one wants to be certain there’s tiny self-indulgence (the employment of first person, ‘I’). Or you might be a journalist where your subjects may be explicit or anything under the sun! Except for you to be accepted as a reporter by a paper you ought to have spent mule’s years gaining credibility as a correspondent or you’ve got to be a celeb of some type so that your words have some ‘news price’. So, selecting between a course in Literature or Journalism, simply on the supposition of your talent for writing could prove rather terrible.