Emergence of New Media Publishing

The emergence of new media has forever changes the methods in which we obtain information. Media publishing include mobile blogging (Moblog), video blogging (Vlog), spam blog (Splog), Hyperlink blogging (Linklog), sketch blogging (Sketchlog), Youtube, online newspaper, magazines and books. New media technologies today are radically challenging media forms.



The (r)evolution of personal and collective publishing offers new tools allowing the Internet users themselves to become content creators. Along with the personal typing in weblogs a new practice for communication has emerged in the form of snapping pictures and sharing them in the web. These virtual picture galleries constructed and updated right from the field with the help of a mobile device has become known as moblogs (Koskela & Arminen, 2007). Some argue that digital publishing such as moblogs allow no privacy and has been abused severely by teenagers who expose themselves on their moblogs. Therefore an issue of social morals have been raised with the emergence of moblogs.

Other than a breach of privacy and lack of responsibility on the authors side, the issue of piracy has also been raised.
Piracy of digital content is a paramount concern – as indeed piracy of printed books in the developing world has been for many years – though sometimes it becomes unclear whether the concerns are about publishers’ lost sales or the abused rights of authors and other copyright owners. The Publishers Association here has made the fight against piracy one its core issues, working with local police authorities in India and elsewhere to bring a number of high profile and successful legal actions against pirates of printed material, and tracking down sellers of illegal digital material. It has set up a Copyright Infringement Portal on the web to enable members to report copyright abuse (Kilborn, 2009).

The turn of the century has brought along with it the fast growing digital media and despite the issues raised, digital media is here to stay. The benefit of digital media is far more than the issues behind it. Therefore it can be concluded that digital media is here to stay.


References
1. Koskela, I., Arminen, I., 2007, Attractiveness and Responsiveness of Moblogs, Observation Journal, Vol. 3, No. 2007, pg. 1-19

2. Kilborn, P., 2009, Piracy of Digital Content, The Association for the Export of Canadian Books, viewed 1st November 2009, http://www.aecb.org/en/market_intelligence/uk_blog/