Monday, June 13, 2011

Reflection

This post will be the last post for this assignment and through this whole journey of blogging I have actually learn something. I have learned that being journalism or blogger or a writer I have to think on the reader's perception to get a better understanding of what's the limitation of what should be written and what shouldn't be. According to Putnis and Petelin (1996), because writing and reading are intimately connected, it is essential for writers to understand how readers read, and to write in a reader-sensitive, reader-based way.

Besides that, blogging is a great way of sharing experience, discuss some issues with friends around the world, and also helps to educate me even better. Thus, blogging don't have to be always about personal but it may leads to everyday's issues.


References:
  • Putnis P., Petelin R. 1996, Professional communication: principles and applications-Writing to Communicate, Prentice Hall, Sydney.
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Saturday, June 11, 2011

Gameboy? Ps2? It's all about Mobile Gaming...

(Guardian.co.uk 2011)

Come and think of it, recently what most people are playing with? Gameboy? Ps2? Not any of that but iPhone and iPad is the latest trend for the now people. What's so awesome about both of it was their apps and that's what cause an 'I' product to cost so much. For me, when i come across both iPhone and iPad, the first thing I think of will be their Angry Birds which mean it's a gaming app. There's this article title 'Angry Birds: 200m downloads are the tip of the mobile gaming iceberg', which basically about half of all the iOS downloads are games. Between 50% and 75% of iPhone owners are playing games on their devices (Guardian.co.uk 2011).

(PCWorld 2010)

On my opinion, I think all this 'I' gadgets are produce for gamer lover or anyone who would want to try out all the apps which I'm one of it that will purchase just for the awesome application they have. Just because they have great application therefore it leads to viral marketing. According to marketingterms.com (2011), viral marketing is the marketing phenomenon that facilitates and encourages people to pass along a marketing message. For example, this Angry Birds game are going through the viral marketing because we can see or hear it that many people are actually talking about it about how this game is an addiction thus, that's how the message passes around from people to people. As this company who created Angry Birds is actually very well successful managing on it.


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Wednesday, June 8, 2011

It's More Than a New Media.

Now days who still want to be a stingy person who never shares anything? I bet everyone did at least share something online. I did share my favourite song with my friends all around the world and my families in Facebook by just share a link or upload a video. With this entire new media, I could easily get connected anytime, anywhere and whenever I want with my friends and family. I still remember during the Japan disaster few months ago, many video footage and pictures about it have been uploaded all around the internet right after it happened few hours later. This news transfer faster than it used to be with the help of new media. After all isn't it great to have such awesome media around us?

Besides that, the appearance of new media allowed an individual to express freely. For instance, there's this article titled 'social media, cellphone video fuel Arab protest' which basically about the Egyptian anti-government street protesters uses their cellphone cameras to snap images and record video of the demonstration. The shaky footage of peaceful protests- and image of horrific carnage- have been uploaded to Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube and other sites and aired on pan-Arab satellite TV stations like Al-Jazeera (Techcentral.my 2011).
(Techcentral.my 2011)

Come across with all this, actually anyone can be a journalism which known as citizen journalism. According to Rogers (2011) explains, citizen journalism is when private individuals do essentially what professional reporters do which is report information which can include text, pictures, audio and video, and usually citizen journalism can be found online such as blogs, podcasts, streaming video and other Web-related innovations.

With the existing of new media which can gets to connect to each other easily and may share and discuss opinion about anything thus, it lead to the existing of the public sphere. According to worldbank.org (2011) the public sphere is the arena where citizens come together, exchange opinions regarding public affairs, discuss, deliberate, and eventually from public opinion.

Therefore, with all the new media we have now would be very beneficial to everyone as it isn't just a media itself and somehow it can do more than that with least expectations.


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Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Not Everyone Have the Same Thought !

It's common that we are looking at the same image but don't have the same perception about it because some people might think an image of a beach is relaxing and some might think of it very boring and some might think of it as a disaster. Just like this article about 'Berita Harian issues public apology over tsunami cartoon'. This article is about a Malay daily publication apologizing to the public about the cartoon comic drawn for publishing is "distasteful" and "insensitive" by Mohd Zohri Sukimi or popularly known as Zoy (The Star Online 2011).

(Myvisitingcard.com 2011)

Through this cartoon comic of a Ultraman which well-known as a superhero from Japan running away from being hit by tsunami. Somehow, this might be a joke for some readers but it might also lead to criticism by some readers especially right after Japan been through such disaster. Therefore according to Kress and Leeuwan (2006), we see images entirely within the realm of the realizations and instantiations of ideology, as means-always-for the articulation of ideology position.

As for my perception, this cartoon comic is not humorous at all and somehow it actually makes me felt a little offensive and wouldn't want to look at it any longer or trying to understand fully what the cartoonist meant. It's a total disrespect to Japan that the cartoonist drew such comic after what have Japan been through with the worst disaster ever. Besides that, I think this incident will downgraded other countries' perception towards Malaysia as one inconsiderate country because the publication would just publish such things without having further thought whether it is appropriate or not.


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Sunday, June 5, 2011

Plagiarism ?

(Glogster 2009)

Plagiarism is the act of taking another person's writing or idea and passing it off as your own (What is Plagiarism, 2011). Commonly, plagiarism is one word that most of us will familiar with especially students. Lecturers will always be the one who remind us not to plagiarize. According to Plagiarism.org (2011), in a sample of 1,800 students at nine state universities, 84% admitted to cheating on written assignments, and 52% had copied a few sentences from a website without citing the source. Besides that, according to Attwood (2008), in a survey of 93 UK higher education institutions, a total of 9,229 cases of plagiarism were recorded in one year.

As Maurer et al. (2006, p. 1050) mention, plagiarism in the sense of "theft of intellectual property" has been around for as long as humans have produced work of art and research, however, easy access to the Web, large databases, and telecommunication in general has turned plagiarism into a serious problem for publishers, researchers and educational institutions.

There's this article named 'Plagiarism: The Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V boom' which was published on BBC News Magazine about the issues of plagiarism has been a problem for many years which not only students commit in such act but same goes to well-known politician people, and the internet now offers students unparalleled opportunities to duplicate and to fabricate such as Google who gave students access to a much greater library of texts thus, the opportunities to harvest material have increased by as easy as Googling the subject matter and hitting Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V (BBC News Magazine 2011).

In my opinion, by just taking someone's idea without citing them isn't fair for the person who originally created it. To avoid from such act it's real important to take note of this tips when you're going to use someone's idea next time which are paraphrase-never use someone else's words, use quotation marks when you going to use the words exactly in a sentence, and make sure you cite who is your sources (Buzzle.com 2011). Thus, all this plagiarism should have placed a 'full-stop' to avoid such unfortunate act that would harm you and others.



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Friday, May 6, 2011

New Forms of Media Publishing

It's a truism that our communications environment is changing. It was ever thus: all 'old' media were new media once. But there is something special about our present situation at the beginning of the 21st century. The combination of digital convergence, personal computing and global networking seems to have ratcheted up the pace of development and is giving rise to radical shifts in the environment.(Naughton 2006)

As we can see that not many people now days read or watch news through newspaper or television but through online news such as The Star online and Youtube.They more time on the internet itself than any other media. This is because internet has a very wide range of information that can be found easily and yet it's unlimited.

According to Walsh(2006), affordance means what is made possible by the modes used. The modern communication in this century such as Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube has the affordance to get connected with their audience easily with variety of visuals and texts.


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Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Blogging Communities & Methods to Build

Blogging communities are a community who interacted online within some bounded set of technologies. The technological act of joining was the most visible indicator of being 'in' or 'out' of the community. Communities could be public or private and visible only to those who joined.(White 2006) As Owyang(2007) classify blogging community is where a group of people with similar goals or interests connect and exchange information using web tools.

According to Nikkis(2011), the methods to build blogging communities will be:-
  1. Read other blogs. Reading other blogs can get feel for what you like and will discover blogs that you share common interests with.
  2. Leave comments on other blogs. By leaving a comment, you are leaving a calling card for others to find you.
  3. Reply to your comments. When people comment on your blog or your posts, they want to know they've been heard.
  4. List your blog in directories. A simple Google search for "blog directories" will bring thousands of results.
  5. Write often. A couple of posts per day you are providing your readers with variety and a chance to keep them at your blog.
  6. Make your post entertaining. Is your content fresh with a different view than other bloggers out there have?
  7. Start marketing your blog. One way is to have a signature link to your blog on message boards and forums.
As blogging has gained wider adoption, blog based community shows up in three main patterns with a wide variety of hybrid forms emerging between the three.(White 2006)
Blog Based Communities
(White 2006)


Single Blog/Blogger Centric Community
This is the first form of blog based community to emerge as readers begin returning to early bloggers' sites, commenting and getting to know not only the blogger, but the community of commentors.(White 2006)


Topic Centric Community
This form is exemplified by groups such as food bloggers, mummy bloggers, travel bloggers and political bloggers with a particular party or issue identification.(White 2006)


Boundaried Communities
Typically members register and 'join' the community and are offered the chance to create a blog. This boundary makes them the closest form to traditional forum based communities.(White 2006)

Tumblr is an example of social blog which falls into the boundaried communities. This is because, tumblr is a social blogs that require user to register themselves before they will be able to create a blog. After registering and joining the community, there goes the user able going around reading other blogger's post and may re-post it in their blogs and leave comments.


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Saturday, April 30, 2011

Classification of Blogs

Different types of blogs are created for different kind of audience and it is blog for different reasons. This is because there are different classifications of blogs such as:

Subject Matters:-
Device:-
Media type:-
Status of publishers:-
Simons(2008) mention that she has her own list of different types of online sites that classify as blogs which are:
  1. Pamphleteering blog-an individual or group of individuals put out a brief essay arguing a point, or expressing a strong point of view.
  2. Digest blog-to point/to summarize/to collect material from elsewhere.
  3. Advocacy blog-pushes a particular point of view on a particular issue.
  4. Popular Mechanics blog-a fascinating collection of information on how to do stuff.
  5. Exhibition blog-usually maintained by craftspeople, artists, writers, and they bring their work to a wider audience.
  6. Gatewatcher blog-small group of blogs which keep an eye on the media.
  7. Diary blog-personal blog.
  8. Advertisement blog-thinly-veiled advertisements in a blog for advertising purpose.
  9. News blog-blogs which provide breaking news.
According to Simons(2008), some blogs offer hope for a new kind of journalism and some don't because they are doing a different kind of thing-things which may in themselves be valuable. Therefore, in my opinion, classifying the kind of blogs isn't that easy and if a blog has classified properly it could definitely gives a better understanding to the viewers.


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Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Blogs as Current Phenomenon & Benefits to The Community

It's common that people nowadays do blog. They started to blog for the purpose of expressing their thoughts, feelings, experience, and many more. According to State of the Blogosphere 2010, bloggers are a highly educated and affluent group which nearly half of all the bloggers who have surveyed have earned a graduate degree, and blogging is now a part of mainstream that average blogger has three or more blogs.(Technorati 2010)

As Morris(2010) mention, blogosphere shows signs of astronomical growth. Blogging is growing both in the US and especially internationally that tens of thousands of new blogs are created every day.(Wordpress.com 2011)

In terms of blogging trends, according to Blogpulse, the most popular topics will be diary and it definitely leads the way. It's one popular topic that many bloggers will blog about.









(Blogpulse 2011)








There are lots of different kinds of blogs and there're more numbers coming on the way as we can see that the stats of blogosphere are growing every time. The types of blogs include political blogs, personal blogs, sports blogs, non-profits blogs, and many more.

It's common that different country have different interest on different kind of blogs. For example, in Iran, the prevalent type of blog would be political blogs because, disenfranchised Iranis have often turned to the blogosphere to engage in commentary critical of the regime.(Technorati 2009) Thus, blogging do benefits Malaysian communities because when comes to political issues, basically most mainstream newspapers are owned by government therefore it will be very biased. So, Malaysian communities can read blogs to understand the other side of the issues.


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Monday, April 11, 2011

Document Design

Now days, it's very common that people uses PowerPoint slides to help them to develop a better understanding presentation. But before starting on getting your PowerPoint, you yourself have to understand about the topic itself. According to Russell(2011), when making a business presentation the most important thing is to know your material and if you do not know everything about what you are selling, it is not likely that the audience will be buying.

To present a good PowerPoint presentation, first of all, make sure all the slides are easy to read by avoid using fancy fonts that will be very difficult for readers to read; then make sure a clear title on each slides; use a simple background so that you won't let any sentences written unclear to read cause of contrasting background; try using graphics, charts or images that will help out in explaining better; avoid using too many words in a presentation slide; do not have too many slides.(Marquez 2011)

For example, the image below which I used it for my group presentation on my week 3, is a very simple background with not complicated fonts. The image on the left is a brief point with supporting from a reading and then I will further elaborate my point with some images on the right side which mean the next slide of my presentation.
Another example below, wish I would like to focus on the title which is 'Visuals Are Not Always Helpful'. With such title it can already grab reader's attention on more what you going to say in further on.

Therefore, Anderson (1987) points out, a good document design helps readers read efficiently, emphasizes the most important contents, and encourages readers to feel good about a communication.(Putnis et al. 1996)


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Saturday, April 9, 2011

Purpose

Publishing makes information available for public view and 'producing information' is the key concept of it.(Schisler 2011) Therefore, the purpose of this blog will be discussing about publishing and some media issues. As this blog's target audience will be specify down to students who have more concern about research and information about document design.


References:
  • Schisler, M 2011, The Future of Publishing-Introduction, What is Publishing?, Publishing and Photography, A More Democratic Publishing Network, Changes in Printing, online, retrieved 9 April 2011, from http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/articles/pages/1088/ Thw-Future-of-Publishing.html
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