media" is defined by the
dictionary as the storage and transmission tools used for delivering data or
information. However, nowadays media is often used as a synonym to mass media
and news media. And media, along with everything else in this world, has
evolved a lot, and when the Internet was introduced, media fitted perfectly in
it, giving birth to the online media.
What is Online Media
From the creation of the Internet,
media fitted in it perfectly. It quickly became an alternative to the media
sources present - television, radio and newspapers. What gave online media such
popularity was the abundant sources the Internet offered - you could read the
same news from several places, giving you different points of view. The
Internet also offered the perfect public tribune for everyone to share their
opinion on the current news. Today, online media is one of the top news
sources, bringing the news to a huge audience.
Online media has many
representations, such as forums, blogs, image galleries and video portals.
Forums
Forums were originally used in Ancient Greece
and the Roman Empire as a place where the public gathered and discussed the
latest news, politics or philosophy. When the World Wide Web gathered
popularity and Internet access became something normal and not a luxury, forums
saw a second coming. Online forums, or discussion boards, are widely popular,
since they allow everybody, connected to the web to share their opinion on a
certain topic. And while in the beginning forums were difficult to maintain, with
the introduction of databases, such as MySQL and PostgreSQL, and scripting
languages, such as PHP and Perl, forums became very easy to
Blogs
Online blogs and bloggers represent
the evolution of the forum, something between a public diary and a tribune,
where everybody can share their opinion on something. While forums are a public
place where a lot of people discuss something, a blog is more private, allowing
an individual to share his opinions on current events or to write on an
important subject for him. Today, blogs are a very popular way of communication
attracting hundreds of visitors every single day.
The creation of blogs today is
something more than easy, with a lot of PHP scripts dedicated just to that.
With the 1-click script installer offered by NTC Hosting, everyone can get his
personal blog online in a matter of minutes!
Image galleries
What the Internet gave to people
was an easy and accessible way to express themselves. And while some prefer to
do that writing in forums or blogs, there are many others who prefer to do that
via the art of photography or drawing. Image galleries represent a huge portion
of the online media today, since a public image gallery gives everyone the
chance to photograph important events and then to share his photos with the
world.
Usually, an image gallery is a hard
thing to develop, but with the suitable web hosting plans offered by NTC
Hosting, you will have all the tools you need to launch your own image gallery,
such as the 1-click PHP script installer, a variety of DNS Management tools and
an easy to use Domain Manager, from where you can register or transfer a new
domain name.
Video Portals
Video portals are the latest trend
these days. With the improvement of the connection speed worldwide, watching a
video online has become something very easy and available to everyone. And with
the low prices of video-recording digital cameras, shooting a video has become
more than easy. So, the only thing that was stopping someone from shooting his
own video news segment and putting it online was the connection speed. Now,
with this obstacle gone, everyone can enjoy different videos, coming from
different places in the world
What are the forms of new media
blogs, forum,image gallaries video portal
1. Blogs: public diary where people
share their opinion on current event or
write about an important subject through the means of
communication
2.Forum :this is a message board
its an on line discussion site where people can hold conversation and forms of
posted message,this differers from the
chatroom because messager are at least temporally archived .This is because
approved by s moderator before it is becomes visible
3.Image gallaries :this are pages
whic contains large number of media content without the use of images,its can
also be refers to as more collection of
photograghs or media files using pictures to tell a stories
4.Video portals:Online video is
video content distributed by the Internet.
This is due in part to the
penetration of broadband internet, and also to the emergence of highly
successful video portals. These portals offer user created or professionally
created content.
The majority of online videos are
shorter than 5 minutes in duration, a length generally preferred by users who
view such content on computers or portable equipment, like cellphones, MP3
players or video game consoles.
Many portals use Adobe Flash Player
for their videos, the player which is becoming a de facto industry standard.
Others use Windows Media Player, QuickTime, DivX Web Player or RealPlayer.
FUNCTIONS
1. Allows to gather data
& information e.g wikipedia
2. Used for publications via online
e.g uploading
3. To acurate /archive a page
4.
For engaging
5.
For developing sites
6
.For visualising
