Print Media And Social Media

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Introduction

During this digital age many question the importance and relevancy of print media with the Internet and social media. Today the social media dominates the society due to their accessibility and efficiency provided to the media readers. Since the introduction of the Internet it created a lot of changes towards the society, which includes the decline of print media witnessed today. It has caused the second media revolution, which changes how society perceives, gathers, and distributes information. However regardless of the change of age in the media industry, print media is still an important and relevant old mass media platform for the society. It supplies as a great platform for people to gather information from newspaper, magazines, books and any other published mediums.

Definitions

What constitutes Print media and social media? The following will establish each point respectively. Print media comes under traditional media, which exist with broadcast media such as television and radio. Print media consist of newspapers, newsletters, booklets, pamphlets, magazine and other printed publications, especially those that sell advertising space as means of raising revenue. Book is considered as a print media since it is a …show more content…

Media revolution is transforming, fundamentally and irrevocably, the nature of journalism and its ethics. This means to publish is now in the hands of citizen, while the Internet encourages new forms of journalism that are interactive and immediate. The first media revolution era occurred after Sir Johannes Gutenberg invented the moveable press, which let the country to gain effective distributing power of mass media back in the 15th century without the need to go to places from places. Ever since then society is able to gain more knowledge and more informed. With petty press introduced too, print media became affordable for the society to

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