Wednesday, November 26, 2008

The future of newspapers: e-Newspaper


For our group presentations in class me and my group’s media industry was newspapers. This industry had done very well in the past but in the past couple of years it has been going through some struggles, and by the looks of things they are not going to end. In our presentation we discussed how and why newspapers are having such problems and what is going to become of them. Newspapers as we know it are fatal. There are so many new technologies taking over the old paper, newspaper.
The new big way to get the news now days is to go on the internet. People love this idea because it has easy access for them they can get internet at home, at work, and even at places like caribou. People this is great since they can read and look at what they want they do not have to flip through papers to find the articles they want to read it is just a click of a button. Also you can comment on different articles you read and see what other people comment on them also. Viewers can also create their own blogs which is becoming a new way some people are starting to get there news. This allows you to create something and write about it and have others comment on what you write about. The best thing about getting the news from the internet for most people is that it’s free. Some other different ways of getting the news that is popular now days is by mobile phone and iPods.
One of the things that is possible to replace newspapers in the future that I am going to talk about is called a IBM e-Newspaper. This is a newly designed newspaper concepts that would bring news and different information on it. The e-Newspaper is very thin looking but sites do say it does weigh more than a Kindle does, a Kindle is a new invention out right now for people to get there news. Even though they are trying to make the e-Newspaper may look like a regular paper newspaper it will never have the same feel as a regular newspaper. This new device is known to mold itself around the consumer by taking into account the consumers’ expectations of the new device. This new design of a newspaper can tell how a person reads, folds, and carries a normal newspaper this is so the consumer feels like it is.
Basically newspapers are slowly but surely dying. With all of the new technology we are coming up with to replace the newspapers, in the future sometime there will no longer be just the regular plain old newspaper. We all love new things and e-Newspaper is not the only new thing that is expected or trying to takeover and replace newspapers. People are looking for easier and more convenient ways to get there news, and they sure are getting exactly that.

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