To design a system with good usability, it is necessary to analyse and grasp the users’ needs or requirements. Different users or audiences might have different needs for the news system so it is very difficult for a system to catch up all the needs. With the help of locating the target user group for the news system, the scope of audience could be decreased, which could allow designers to discover specific users’ needs easily. In addition, through finding the target user group, people could integrate the users’ need into the core values of the system better, which could help the whole system to enhance the usability and become more competitive than other news systems or applications in the market. Due to this, this section is going to …show more content…
Also, the fourth feature of the target user for this system is that the target users would want a constant stream of new information and they would want some short news or some highlighted-interesting information as well in order to read through a large amount of news in a short time.
Furthermore, the target user group of this news system would have different news-related behaviours. To catch up the target users’ needs and enhance the usability of the whole system, the news system would support some specific new-related behaviours. One of specific news-related behaviours supported by the system is that the target users would look through some popular or hot news listed on the homepage of the system in order to spend less time on searching for the news or information which they want because many target users would want to catch up the trend and collect a large amount of information in a short time. As a result of this, many target users would through viewing the news listed on homepage to grasp some latest news or events happened in their countries or in the worldwide. Another news-related behaviour is that while the target users use the news system to encounter different news or information, they would share the links of news or information to other people on different social media platforms. Because of
1. News you can choose – People are selective viewers now, “they approach their news consumption the way they approach their iPod”. Viewers can choose the Internet, Facebook, Messaging, Twitter, Snap-Chat, You Tube, TiVo, Cable TV, and the best one is word of mouth of where they saw something.
Over-ally technology has brought around more positives than negatives for the journalism industry, growing the audience base to number that could not have been possible with just newspaper, it also provided easier ways to engage the viewers and listeners as especially in the 19th and early 20th century there were still many people that could not read. As technology is continuously impacting journalism now and into the future, there’s a chance to see more interesting gadgets that will gauge the user’s interest in
With all of the new platforms of media, our world is evolving faster than ever. New technology allows us to have fast and easy access to breaking news. The challenging task for journalists
Social media has transformed the way that news is gathered and distributed. Social media users seek the news through social media sites; for example, 64% of the U.S. Adults use Facebook and about half of those users get news from Facebook. The users of social media also diffuse the news and participate in news circulation by sharing news stories, images, videos, and discussions posts about a news or event, nearly 46% of social network site users have discussed a news issue (Anderson & Caumont, 2014). Furthermore, social media sites have increased the accessibility to news and now 62% of U.S. adults, which is about 6-in-10 Americans, get news from social media. There are varieties of social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube,
With the uprising of smartphones, news is constantly available at the tap of a button, virtually anywhere. News sources such as CNN, NBC, and BBC, have all developed apps in which allow users to customize the type of news they see and what news articles warrant alerts and notifications (Martin and Collin, 31). People no longer need to go to internet cafés or log on to their own personal computers; breaking stories from around the globe are available almost as soon as they happen and now subscribers have the luxury to view these stories no matter their location.
I have analyzed three online news publications from different parts of the world. Those are Fox News from the U.S., BBC from England and Mail & Guardian from South Africa. In this research paper I will present quantitative research that indicates the statistically significance between them.
If one were to scroll through the front page of The Guardian or BBC, there would exist a plethora of Breaking News headline articles, sections separating countries and the world, and genre tabs on a task organizer below the website’s header. The World Wide Web is now a home to vast varieties of information flowing about every single day to which it has evolved to where one can search one word, and billions of possible responses could be drawn from any listed website. Because of the versatility of designed to reach out quickly to a target audience, news can be showcased in seconds to those who seek it. Information can reach around the world if so
Due to the vast amount of social platforms that teenagers and adults have, news can be spread very quickly. Social media such as Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, and Instagram have millions of users that visit the apps or websites regularly in a day. This enables the user to view what celebrities post, or what things are trending right now. The platforms are very efficient
This example from social media displays two social media posts from the United States about the same subject with different headlines. This shows how technology has impacted the way people interpret the news because with social media people and companies are able to share their perspective on a subject, which presents different version and interpretations of the news across the nation. To conclude, technology has impacted the way people interpret the news by sharing multiple different versions of the news across the nation, as shown by the difference between the radio and social
People like to be informed. According to Nielsen’s Q4 report in 2012, Americans have a voracious appetite for content, spending an average of 41 hours per week engaging with it across different screens. For the consumer, it’s about being entertained and staying informed [1]. The onset of the internet has revolutionized the news business in several ways, making an impact in society; 50% of the public now cites the internet as a main source for news, percentage that will increase in the next years since 71% of younger Americans cite the internet as a main news source [2, 3].
Despite the decline of the newspaper industry, USA Today has found the ways of differentiating and staying away from the commodity status of most news sources. It means that USA Today put their readers’ interests above the financial benefits. First, the paper's focus will now be on its digital operations. Furthermore, it will emphasize breaking news on its Website, aiming to post articles within 30 minutes of a breaking news event. It will create a stand-alone sports segment called USA Today Sports. Additionally, it will shift more of its resources toward making content more available in digital form, an effort to win a larger share of the tablet and mobile phone news market (Peters, 2010). Second, they deliver the innovative content that is
News broadcast is fundamentally a method in which information can be most quickly transmitted to a large audience, and regardless the commercial or public roots of the broadcast the basic structure of the news bulletin remains unchanged. However when taking the key differences in ownership, financial funding and intended audience into account, the differences in content and delivery of news are made apparent. To more closely illustrate the specific differences that can be found we will be comparing the public broadcasts of Triple J and ABC News with the commercial broadcasts Gold FM and Seven News where the disparity in news priorities is most evident.
With the introduction of the internet news consumption and peoples news consumption has changed significantly, as well as the way in which news organizations provide content to the public. The author of this study seeks to investigate the consumption methods of individuals, and compare the rate at which news is collected through the traditional print-based medium, and also the new online format. In order to do this they use the incredibly popular CNN.com as well as www.nytimes.com and their print-based counter parts to investigate determinants of international news reporting.
It is a hot summer evening, and you are sitting on your couch reading the daily newspaper, scanning the stories that tell you what the world is like today. The lines paint a clear picture of what is happening or what has happened. Sorry! but that’s not how things work. Like other types of journalistic media, newspapers do not always tell the truth in a reliable and trustworthy fashion. As with other everyday items, the purpose is there, but it is not always akin to what we truly need. Brooke Gladstone references these notions often in her book The Influencing Machine. In short, Gladstone shows that the media has a much-needed purpose, like informing us on governmental decisions and briefing the people on new issues; However, this function is meaningless in a society in which dishonest media outlets are more popular, and thusly more profitable, than more honest and reliable sources. Journalistic media today is not what you thought it was; It may have a purpose we cannot live without, but it is often unreliable and dishonest.
The term “journalism” has taken on many definitions in the past two decades. It is no longer about television, print and radio content, but the digitalization of content. Today’s journalists are expected to go beyond traditional journalistic practices. They need to know how to be experts in digital reporting and publishing. By providing tips on how to organize data digitally, build websites, build an audience, create video, audio and photographed content, editing and publishing this content, Briggs covers all areas of digital journalism. Briggs book, consisting of 11 chapters, is divided into three sections including basics, multimedia storytelling and editing/decision making in journalism.