The design of online newspapers: A comparative analysis on online newspapers
Kitapta bölümler > Mesleki Kitap · 2019
Yazarlar: İlknur AYDOĞDU KARAASLAN
New Approaches in Media and Communication, Mesleki Kitap, Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., B, Uluslararası, 2019, ss 255-273, Almanya, Berlin
Özet
The online transformation and use of traditional journalism is increasing with the development of multimedia technologies. As new technologies become cheaper and widespread, online journalism moves ahead of traditional journalism. The one-way, limited and slow news flow provided by traditional journalism puts readers in the position of passive buyers. However, the internet offers new opportunities both to the journalism sector and readers in terms of instantaneity, access, consumption and interactivity. In recent years, the news media has turned onto online journalism. For this reason, it is important for newspapers and online news sites to be existed effectively in the web environment to gain similar features of TVs, radios and various data sources, like carrying out similar kinds of services and combining together which have different communication platforms with the spread of the internet and the web. This process transforms traditional newspapers into different contents and features. Therefore, journalists and internet providers have to catch up with these innovations that come with the web. With increased knowledge in the online environment, virtual environments, which enable individuals to participate in the processes of collecting, recording, analyzing and disseminating news and information, and taking active roles, are required. For this reason, the design of newspapers is becoming important for online media journalism. Some of the basic principles of this design are the elements such as interactivity, multimedia, hypertextuality, archiving, etc. In this study, newspapers such as Mynet news, NTV News, Internet News, Milliyet newspaper, Cumhuriyet newspaper, Sabah newspaper, Son Dakika News, Haber7, T24 news sites, which are listed in Alexa Top 100 and have officially online broadcasting, are evaluated in terms of the characteristics of online journalism.