We were told that text is: fast; flexible; controlled; searchable; online.
For these reason text has been able to evolve over so many centuries to what it is today - a very popular online media.
Without text, we would have no Facebook (heaven forbid!), no online research, and certainly this blog wouldn't exist! And so we must be grateful for text and appreciate it.
Especially in the world of a writer, text is a very loyal friend. It is an excellent form of mass communication.
An excellent use of text recently is the way that online we are able to have conversations or discussion about a certain topic with people from all over the world. While in the conversation we are able to easily locate extra information and simply link people to back up arguments, etc. These technology are seriously pushing us forward through the new age of technology, and hopefully journalists will be able to keep up.
Having online blogs is one way journalists utilise both text and the online platform.
Another new form of news text and media is news games! In class we were shown one called 'Cutthroat Capitalism'. It was quite an interesting experience. The game featured around the events of real pirates of the coasts boarding ships and holding crew hostage until they were paid a specific amount. The game allows you to experience this from the pirates' perspective.
I went and further researched other news games that are currently available online and found the following:
And there are heaps more out there if you just google it. It's really quite an amazing way to get an inside view on the news.
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