When asked what is the newest form of media publishing? I say, Youtube a type of vlog would be the best answer. Walsh (2006) opines that a textual shift is taking place from the monomodal to the multimodal that includes different modes of communication such as prose, graphics, video and audio. This explained the emergence of media publishing from black and white text to video with multicolor graphics.
Youtube is a medium which the public can upload and share video using MPEG-4 format anytime, anywhere. And the best part is, it is free. Therefore, it is not surprising if you see video containing defamation, pornography and violation elements. Unethical users voilates the means of Youtube has alaways been an issue surrounding the media field. For instance, a recent recording aired by Al-jazeera that Osama Bin Laden are using vlog to spread terrorist propaganda. It was then spread widely on Youtube.
Osama Bin Laden Calls for Jihad to Against Israel aired on Youtube
Apart from that, Youtube actually is an useful tool. Remember Susan Boyle, the 47 years old lady with a beautiful voice from 'Britain's Got Talent"? She vowed the judges in that reality tv shows and became famous. When it was uploaded Youtube, immediately the astonishing Susan Boyle hits the Youtube 'most viewed' at about 67,812,149 viewers. Having that said, Youtube at this point has perform a good example as it enables us to share what's happening around the world nevertheless see what we have missed in other medium - Television.
Here is the video of Susan Boyle on Youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY
Reference
Walsh, M 2006, 'Textual shift: examining the reading process with print, visual and multimodal texts', in Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, vol. 29, no.1, pp. 24 - 37.
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