A good design for screen genre

The principles of design are important to any visual presentation. A good design for screen genre will increase the viewer interest to the topic, guide them through the text and increasing the ability to remember important sections (Diana R. 2008). Based on our very first group presentation, “the meaning of composition”, there are some lack of applying the theories for the screen design and it could be refined to the desired of issue on design principles.

Critique on my group three screen shots of presentation slides

In my group presentation, the slide 7 has more than one information we wish to present, which will cover the topic “Top and Bottom”, “Real and Ideal”, therefore we should divide the heading into two or more headings or subheading to alert readers to the sequence of information in the slide. This is supported by Diana R. (2008) at the written cues in document design. Furthermore, slide 8 is a picture example use to explain the slide 7. The presenter should place the heading at the top-left corner of the slide to guide readers that there is a link with the previous slide.


Based on slide 11, the presenter can highlight specific details by using typographic devices such as boldface type to add emphasis on the specific words; this is stated by Diana R. (2008) under format element in document design. Moreover, for the screen genre design, the color choosing can reinforce our message and appeal specifically to intended audience. According to Nielson.J (1997), to present a good page, author has to employed combined of concise, scannable, objective written text.


Screen Shots:


Slide 7



Slide 8



Slide 11





Reference List:

1. Reep, Diana C. 2006, ‘Chp 4: Principles of Document Design,’ in Technical Writing, 6th ed., Pearson Edu, Inc., New York, p.173-190.

2. Nielson, J. (1997), “Consice,Scannable and Objective: How to write for the web”, viewed April 18 2010, http://www.useit.com/papers/webwriting/writing.html

The new forms of media publishing

The encroaching of internet in our society, create an alternate way for audience to in-depth exploration and freedom of speech instead of just passive recipients. It makes growth of online news as print-based culture takes longer to attained kind of communicative competence needed (Naughton J, 2006). This forced the conventional newspaper to adapt and move to different place in ecosystem. The internet provides people with formidable resources which to become more knowledgeable. The net is also making it much harder for companies to keep secrets. Flaws of product or sub-standard services will spread quickly around the net (Naughton J, 2006).


Issue concerning the new trend and how it alternated the roles of journalism?




Content communities for instance, Youtube and Facebook are the broad online platforms sharing of media content between users in the forms of text, photos videos. (Kaplan M., Haenlein M., 2009).Emerging of new media enable people to have freedom of speech, the phenomenon success of Malaysiakini.com, an independent online news in Malaysia, registering an average of 150,000 unique visitors a day, indicates that the self-censored mainstream media have lost much credibility that a growing number of Malaysian are seeking alternatives news on the net. With the advent of the internet, the government can no longer have complete monopoly on the truth ( Guardian.co.uk, 2001). This have altered the roles of traditional journalism which act as source of media (Kaplan M., Haenlein M., 2009). However, the new forms of publishing have carried the risk of being used as platforms for the sharing of copyright-protected materials and conduct unethical behaviors.



Reference List:

1. Guardian.co.uk, 2010, “Ending the government’s monopoly on the truth”, viewed April 18 2010 http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2001/apr/29/freespeech.observercampaignpressfreedom

2. Kaplan M., Haenlein M., 2009, “Users of the world, unite! The challenges and opportunities of social media”, Business Horizons, Vol. 53, Issue 1, January-February 2010, Pages 59-68, viewed April 18 2010

3. Naughton, J. 2006, ‘Blogging and the emerging media ecosystem’, viewed April 18 2010 http://reuteursinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/about/discussion/blogging.html

The types of blogging communities & method to build blogging communities

Blogging community is an online discussion platform which integrates various types of people who have similar area of interest, interacted online within some bounded set of technologies.

How to create a blogging community?

Blogging community can be created via blogging tools such as hyperlink to links to others blog within blog posts, tagging, aggregated feeds using RSS, trackbacks and comments to building relationships with other bloggers(White N. 2006), these tools can be easily found at the web source online and aggregate of these tools will provide the ways to create a excellent blogging community. The process of blogging also became simpler with the advent of web-based tools such as Blogger, Pita, Groksoup, Diaryland, Live Journal and others (Lasica 2001)

Types of Blogging Communities

According to White N. (2006), there are three types of blogging communities. The first is Blogger Centric Community, which is owned by one owner, the power in community firmly in the central’s blogger’s control. Second, is the Topic Centric Community, which blogs can be on variety of tools, each blog controlled and customized individually, network will not fall with the failure of one blog. The third is the Boundaried Communities, which it platform centrally hosted and controlled and members may have customizations option.

An example of structure of a blogging community

Global Voices is an example of topic centric communities. It is a community aggregates blogs from developing countries in an effort to get the mainstream media to pay attention to issues in those countries. The blogger in this community maintain their own blog and falling of one blog does not affect the community. In Global Voices, there are no centralized tool conventions, both power and identity is distributed across the community, the blogger can have shared tag, post relevant to a community and each blogger selecting their own tool, controlled and customized individually (White N. 2006).


Topic Centric Communities: Global Voices

http://globalvoicesonline.org/


Reference List:

1. Branum J. 2001, “The blogging phenomenon: An overview and theorectical consideration”, viewed April 17 2010
http://www.ajy.net/jmb/blogphenomenon.htm

2. White N. 2006, “Blog and Community: Launching a new paradigm for online community?” viewed April 17 2010
http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial/blogs-and-community-%E2%80%93-launching-a-new-paradigm-for-online-community

Classification of blogs & the most appropriate classification approach

The classification of blogs

There are various kinds of blogs varying from personal diary types of blog. The blogs can classify in subject matter of cultural, Business, Personal, Topic, Collaborative, Science, Eclectic, Directory, Educational and Forum (Kant P, 2010). Alternately, Branum J. (2001) prompted the most common classification of blogs is into two categorizations which are filter-style and free-style. Filter style are occasional comments and linking to sites provides by author. Whereas free-style blog is blog focused more on the internal world of the author ranging from traditional diaries to daily observations of the world. Branum J.(2001) also categorized blogs differently according to subject matter such as Media digests, Academic, Traditional link filters, Me-zines and personal journal. Furthermore, some blogs are categorized according to media types such as linklog, vlog, tumblelogs and sketchlog.

The most appropriate classification approach

However, according to the taxonomy of blogs by Simons M.(2008), the blogs can classify into nine types which are pamphleteering blogs, digest blog, advocacy blog, popular mechanics blog, exhibition blog, gate-watcher blog, the diary, the advertisement, and the news blog. However, from my findings above, many blogs are now combination of styles which makes it difficult to identify unique types of blog into specific field. According to Branum J.(2001), one can classify a blog by its form of authorship but there are some blogs that are collaborative in nature. In my opinion, due to the variation of blogs, and it doesn’t gives manifestly characteristic, therefore there is no specific classification system that exactly set to match the styles of blogs. It is depends on individual own judgment.


Screen Shots:

Linklog

http://jennifer.wordpress.com/


Vlog

http://www.youtube.com/


Tumblelogs

http://project.ioni.st/


Sketchlog

http://emilyanthony.blogspot.com/



Reference List

1. Branum J. 2001, The blogging phenomenon: An overview and theorectical consideration”, viewed April 10 2010 http://www.ajy.net/jmb/blogphenomenon.htm

2. Kant, P. (2010), “Different types of blogs”, myhosting.com blog, viewed April 10 2010
http://myhosting.com/blog/2010/04/types-blogs-2/

3. Simmons, M. (2008), "A taxamony of blogs", ABC Transcript, viewed April 10 2010,
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/mediareport/stories/2008/2372882.htm#transcript