New forms of media publishing- Facebook

People has divert their attention from the printed form of communication, into new media. The newest form of media publishing that is mostly used by many people these days is moblog (mobile blog). It is consider as a multimodal text form of blogging as it is allowing people to upload not only pictures but also video at any time and places through mobile phone. according to Walsh(2006), multimodal text is meaning communicated through synchronisation of modes and may involve with moving images, sounds and produced on electronic screen.

Source: snapvoip.blogspot.com

There are many devices that has browsing application but the most booming mobile phone device is BlackBerry. BlackBerry is called as a smartphone that gives out a valuable and convenient applications to the people.

Moblog has dominate people's time and create an addiction to those who are enjoying the applications. It has given a strong impact to the social media and has create a rapid growth on Facebook. Especially in Indonesia.

How Facebook changes the way of communications?

Besides providing an excellent facilities whereby can be accessed in many different ways from the computers into mobile phone (Blackberry). Facebook managed to grab millions of people's interest. There are many different form of online communication, example blogging and forums; There are still many who still continue blogging but there are more people who stop and decided to move their attention into facebook. It allows the audiences to have an instant update about themselves through the shout out box and also gain update on others as well. example is on the figure on the right.

Facebook is also a perfect place where many business organizations lay their interest to promote their products and services. Also an excellent place to do survey research and sharing the latest update about them at any time. example : WWF.

Lesser people show interest in printed way of communications however facebook may not eliminate other form of communication but it is changes the flow of the communication chain. and Naughton. J 2006 shared his opinion by saying "when the Web arrived, people predicted that it would wipe out newsprint and new communications technologies may not wipe out earlier ones, they certainly changes the ecosystem".

Facebook Issues

Facebook is facing a serious issue of privacy. Many have complaint regarding this matter including the Canadian officials who concerned on the privacy level in Facebook. Trying to ensure that any third- party viewers cannot access over the personal information. Due to that matter, often there are cases where people are using false identity to rape and murder. One clear example is a case happened in United Kingdom, where a teenage girl is raped and murdered after she was cheated by a guy who was registered on Facebook under the name of Peter Cartwright, from Liverpool and claimed he was 17 years old, single and work part-time as a DJ.

References

ABC Radio National, 2005, New media publishing, Reviewed on 17th April 2010,

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bigidea/stories/s1485827.htm

Cnet news, 2009, Canadian Officials take Issue with Facebook privacy,

Viewed on 17th April 2010,

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10289686-36.html

Naughton. J 2006, 'Blogging and the emerging media ecosystem' , viewed on 16th April 2010,

http://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/fileadmin/documents/discussion/blogging.pdf

Telegraph.co.uk, 2010, Facebook murder's monitoring 'an issue', Viewed on 17th April 2010,

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/7404064/Facebook-murderers-monitoring-an-issue-Alan-Johnson-says.html

Thomas Crampton, Indonesia: Where Blackberry beats iPhone, Viewed on 17th April 2010,

http://www.thomascrampton.com/indonesia/indonesia-iphone/