Traditional media is news channels such as CNN, Fox5, Channel 4, and Channel 7. The Washington Post and New York Times are also considered as Trditional media. Social media is the internet news that comes from places like Facebook, Twitter, and Yahoo. Text messaging, emailing, and Blogging are also considered as social media. The difference between traditional media and social media is that social media attracks more viewers today than traditional media.
Writing on the web is different than traditonal news writing because most of the web writing is designed to be short and simple. The writers generally try to get to the point of what they are saying so that they still have your attention to want to read more. Traditional news writing is articles that appear very long and boring. They usually dont gain anyones interest because no one wants to read a long boring paragraph. Thats why most people choose to read writing over the web rather than in the traditional news writing because you can read a long story in the Washington Post and find the same story on Yahoo with a shorter paragraph and interesting pictures that makes you want to read more.
Social media influences how people recieve their news today because most people dont like to sit and watch the news nor read a news paper to find out whats going on in the world. Most of the time people are surfing the web spending most of their time on places such as Twitter or Facebook. The news for everything gets out quick on places like that when every 2 minutes someones updating their statuses on a certain issuse. Texting also influences how people get their news today because its a faster and shorter way to communicate.
Media is changing in the "Distribution Revolution" because using social network venues like Twitter and Facebook helps people get the news quicker with detail and at the exact time that its happening. An example from the article is when and Executive Editor Robyn Tomlin was on her job arriving in Ocala, Florida at the time when a storm was hitting. She was in the house when the wind got heavy and the light shut off. Everyone was frighten but her. She had better ways to tell others about what she was experiencing at the time. "I was tweeting all this stuff from my cell phone." Said Tomlin as she explained her experience being caught in the house during a severe storm. This shows how media is changing because people actually took the time to read and be update with her tweets to know that there was a storm in Ocala, Florida. Another example would be traditional media trying to find ways to gain views so they get connected with the social networking by creating links through these venues like Twitter and Facebook to keep the public notified. "The New York Times has Twitter feeds, too." These are examples of how the distribution revolution explains the influneces of the new social media.
