Traditional Media And New Media

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The advent of new media has had tremendous influence on every aspect of human information dissemination. Although the purpose of new media is very much built on the traditional media, new media has definitely exceeded the abilities of traditional media, with technology. The new media, Internet applications such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube which facilitate the creation and exchange of user-created content, has been identified as key to influence and promote social movements. That is, It is clearly that new media-initiated attitudes drive social movements and issues such as environmental problems, energy crises and political corruption as social movements that concern the public.
Introduction
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Both new media and traditional media have the same objective that is to keep people informed. It does not matter if people read a newspaper or magazine, or even webzines, also known as e-newsletters. Both media platforms serve to provide news and articles to inform people of the happenings around the world. Books which could be found in libraries and online communities like Wikipedia offer people bits of facts for the general knowledge, providing basic knowledge on certain topics. New media has the foundations of traditional media in serving the same purpose, similar procedures in gathering information and sharing the same audiences; however, it may succeed traditional media due to the differences in the freedom of speech, coupled with social networking services entitled to users and the hastened speed …show more content…

2004). People would speculate that the quality of these features has an effect on the extent to which and the way in which new medias are used.
Conclusion
New Media is a 21st Century catchall term used to define all that is related to the internet and the interplay between technology, images and sound. New media has its foundations built on traditional media and definitely has improved services and caters to the generations born in the era of technology. The key success, if new media is to ever succeed traditional media, is advanced technology in internet. More recent technological advances have provided social movements with additional opportunities for organizing, mobilization, and protest such as Web 2.0 social networking sites, blogging, and smart

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