There are many new trends of media publishing due to the rising technology development. The newest trends of it are such as vlog, moblog, splog and youtube and to discuss about the issues in media publishing, I will use youtube as an example.
Youtube is one of the largest and most popular places in the online world besides blogs to be socially connected with other people. Youtube is a video sharing service that allows users to post up their own videos from animations to personal recordings (EducauseLibrarian n.d.). From the same site, it also stated that the trends in youtube is to emerge a class of social applications that allows users to share and form communities around their content and thus, it will draws the users to engage their content as commentators and creators activities that heighten peoples’ visual literacy.
One of the examples is the short video clip below where Bill Clinton is campaigning for Hillary Clinton. By this clip, there are many responses from viewers where they have their own opinion on the clip and it will influence the related voters to change their votes.
Source: Youtube
As for the issues in Malaysia, one of the main issues is freedom of speech. Normally people think that freedom of speech is a good thing; however, there are some awful things about it as well. For instance, Namewee has make clips in youtube to criticise Malaysia and he claimed that as a freedom of speech. Conversely, by doing so, he had offended many people and he was almost sued by the Malaysia’s government by making the video ‘Negarakuku’. Fortunately for him, he is able to solve the problem out with the Malaysia’s government. Besides the ‘Negarakuku’ clip, he also makes clip with some inappropriate words used about races and included Singaporeans inside titled ‘Kawanku’ which is shown below. This is such an insult to the related people and although Malaysia applied freedom of speech, the clip by Namewee is totally inappropriate.
Source: Youtube
Thus, in my opinion, not everything about media publishing is good. The freedom of speech in the online world is sometimes really awful and will offend some viewers.
References
JustNewbie 2007, Kawanku by Namewee, Youtube, viewed 7th May 2008 at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58JelEUXZ_Y&feature=related
7 things you should know about youtube n.d., EducauseLibrarian, viewed 7th May 2008 at http://connect.educause.edu/Library/ELI/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAbout/39395
tbetz 2008, President Clinton responds to Hillary's "Children" ad, Youtube, viewed 7th May 2008 at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZW0m2nWB_M
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