Visual format is an important element to consider when analyzing today's internet landscape. For braodcasters, different styles of formatting headlines and stories are used in order to cater to different types of readers and shape the way their information is viewed and (potentially) interpreted. This simple observation can be applied when looking at the difference between CNN's format of G-20 coverage versus Al-Jazeera English's formatting of their G-20 coverage.
CNN
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2009/news/g20.summit/
Al-Jazeera English
http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/the2009g20londonsummit/
Questions to be answered about the visual presence include: What type of audience are the broadcasters attracting/ catering to? How does each format invite different reading styles? How do the formats implement or not implement Web 2.0?
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment