The Impact Of ICT on Society

The Impact Of ICT on Society

Task 1 newspaper industry

The effects of using a website that shows news items, on the

newspaper, and individual reader, society and the environment.

Newspaper

If a website shows all the news items this can be seen as positive

factor and a negative factor. The website will allow easy access for

information to people across the whole world who may want to get into

touch with the news and what is going on across the world. Because the

news items are being displayed on a website this allows colour display

of the articles and images which is not always possible in a

conventional newspaper creating a better reading sensation. Because

technology is revolutionising so fast the newspapers need to keep up

with this technology and make sure they to update their work onto the

net. The website will allow the newspaper to publish multiple articles

without having to waste large amounts of paper and ink causing this

scheme to be more environmentally friendly. The newspaper can also

have database which contains all its previous articles and resources

which would prove very popular for news enthusiasts. Because of the

capacity of most websites they can store more information onto the

database which has potential social implications as well.

Traditionally it may have taken a large amount of paper to print the

same coverage that now one website can store hence saving paper. The

image of the newspaper would be improved as they will be known as a

technologically progressive company.

An individual reader

An individual reader would benefit from the facility to be able to

have access to multiple information within one website. He would not

be restricted to only the news that was restricted to conventional

papers but also other aspects such as forums with people expressing

their views about the news. This creates more interactivity and more

opinionated discussions rather than just being told the news and

having no say bout it. Because all the articles are stored on the