E-Publishing - Week Five

Online Stories and Journals

To start the lecture we looked at an online news article on the BBC webpage. Online news is a new version of news which includes; reports, main story, links to other articles, comments, pictures, videos, background information, hyperlinks (related internet links to other pages on the internet) also the ability to share the news story (email, Facebook etc) or to print the story.

Online news brought a change in reading habits and also brought up the question of breadth over depth. It also allowed for advertising and for people to leave comments. Could people's comments have an effect on the story? (especially negative comments).

Brought a demand for 24 hour news.

'Gatekeeper' - controls what we read (to an extent - comments)

Also looked at the website 'Archipelago' which is a journal of poetry, creative writing etc. an outlet for people to get their work out on the internet, also in a format that readers can also download.


C - CLIENTS
A - ACTORS
T - TRANSFORMATION
W - WORLD VIEW
O - OWNER
E - ENVIRONMENT



WRITERS + EDITORS + REVIEWERS

POEMS/STORIES -------->
QUALITY CHECK --------> BLACK BOX ----------------------> JOURNAL
GRAPHIC DESIGN ------->
WEB ---------------------->




POEMS/STORIES --------> JOURNAL --------> WEB LITERATE LITERARY INTEREST



ILLUSTRATOR + PRODUCER + WRITERS + EDITOR


PAPER/INK ------------------------->
CONTENT --------------------------->
DESIGN -----------------------------> BOOK -------------------> READERS/INTEREST
TECHNOLOGY ---------------------->
QUALITY CHECKS ------------------>


- What does it enhance? (lulu)
- Does it improve anything? (availability of christmas presents etc)
- Sharing information in communities
- Enhance value of the book
- Increase volume of things being published
- Extend life of out-of-print books
- Design options
- Quality
- Encourage people to write
- Enhances postal service?

-What does it replace? (no longer needed/sustainable?)
- Publishing agencies
- Big corporations
- Printers
- Removing choice of company
- Replaces a book store
- Replaces warehouses
- Replaces trucks
- Reduces carbon emmissions
- More postmen delivering individual copies

- What would it revive?
- Bring back postal service
- Creative writing courses
- Out of print texts
- Specialist books
- Publishing for the love of books
- Small publishing houses

-What would be the long term effects?
- One big company
- libraries disappear/change
- Sales go down
- Channels change