A New Generation Of Free Publishing
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Submitted by freefortermpapers on 06/24/2008 03:00 PM
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A New Generation Of Free Publishing
The use of distribution media has always been a luxury exclusive to a privileged few. Corporations own the media and make all the decisions on what is news or what should be delivered over their property. The people that observe the media are bystanders, the audience of the corporate media machine. The Corporations design content for these mediums for the main purpose of obtaining ad revenue. The advent of the internet as a medium that allows writers to publish their ideas expanded the scope of who could publish their ideas, offering a free and unregulated medium to propagate ideas. Although information on the internet is ample and diverse, information is not given as it is in other mediums so much as it is sought after. Newspapers and television state what the news is, while the internet contains news with the requirement that must be found in a myriad wasteland of choices; the proverbial "needle in a haystack." These difficulties coupled with fairly complex technical knowledge prerequisites relegated internet webpage publishing to a position of mediocrity. The emergence of the weblog form of internet publishing shifts the focus away from searching for information and brings it more in line with the commentary-centric periodical formatting of print medium. The weblog is a beneficial evolution of the internet media, therefore weblog publishing should be taught at community college because it makes media accessible to all, summarizes the chaos that is the internet in a meaningful way, and stimulates the exchange of unbiased original opinion and thought.
When the internet gained mass acceptance, writers interested in independent publishing thought that it would be a free medium for people to present their ideas and communicate thoughts through web pages. To some extent the internet was a free media, but it required knowledge of web design and coding that made it inaccessible to a person that has no practical need to learn those skills. Only the...
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