FAMWZ ON NEW MEDIA

FAMWZ ON NEW MEDIA

FAMWZ is doing great in familiarising female journalists with new media. which involves blogs, wikis, facebook, mashups, ... Amazingly, enumeration is a pretty good way to explain to folks what is meant by the term new media.

New media is hard to define because it's a moving target that changes as the technologies keep changing.

These are types of internet-based communication technologies, which use 3 or more of the 5 C's

Characteristics of New Media
we are learning the unique characteristics that differentiate new media from old one e.g Communication,Collaboration ,Community,Creativity, Convergence , Web 2.0 Technology

Compare to the so-called "old" media: newspapers, magazines, radio, television. Have the new media rendered the old media obsolete? Is this a "new world" - like the industrial revolution? The term "old media" would cause us to think so. However, what we have been seeing is more like a fusing of old and new. Newspapers also have online blogs. Television channels have fan sites for their shows. In the historical perspective, we would like to show the various influences on the new media of today, which could not exist without the convergence of technologies or, indeed, without the convergence of media. We could construct a timeline placing critical events in their historical context.

The Daily Blog Tips i have learnt today

Starting a new blog is difficult and this can put many people off. Some may get off to a good start only to become quickly discouraged because of the lack of comments or visits. 

 Post regularly, but don't post if you have nothing worth posting about.

Stick with only a few specific genres to talk about.

Don't put 'subscribe' and 'vote me' links all over the front page until you have people that like your blog enough to ignore them (they're usually just in the way).

Use a clean and simple theme if at all possible.

Enjoy, blog for fun, comment on other peoples' blogs (as they normally visit back).

Have fun blogging and remember, there are no rules to what you post on your blog!

Thanks to my tutor,Upenyu Makoni