September 17, 2012

Printed Media vs Digital Media

There is no denying that the presence of Gutenberg's printing press in 1455 became one of the important milestones in the history of journalism in the world. With the printing press, the world of journalism can not only reach a wider public, but also to encourage innovation in the world of journalism itself.
The presence of the printing press to stimulate the development of forms and types of products of journalism at the time. Products journalism that was just a story in the paper swatch, a tabloid that more neatly, to be paid magazine.
The development of communication technology has brought has brought a number of changes in the life of the world community. The presence of computers and stuff derivatives with software (software) and artificial intelligence (artificial intelligence) in it also brings its own changes to the face of journalism, especially in the distribution of the news itself.
Now people can enjoy the real time news and of course attractive. Young people aged 18 to 29 years or so-called Generation Y (the growth and development in the information age) prefer to rely on the internet to get their news rather than political campaigns networked television news or newspapers (Pew Research Center, 2004).
Today we are bombarded with information through the applications of our smartphones. The existence of this technology shift also affects the transition how to read the product of journalism. With practical news obtained through interaction between humans and computers, will still be able to survive the print media, or just waiting to die?