Hi all, it's time to update my blog again!
Have you ever wonder what is the difference between traditional media and new media? First of all, we have to understand what is traditional media and what is new media.
Traditional media are also known as old media, which refers to communication or expression that exist before the invention of new medium of the internet. Examples for traditional media are newspaper and magazines.
Meanwhile, new media are digitalize communication using internet. Examples for new media are Twitter, Youtube, Facebook and etc.
The exist of new media had change audience's habit on getting or sharing information and news. With new media, getting latest news are as easy as pie. Not only local news, international news are also easily accessible and we can get immediate updates from the media as soon as there are any changes on certain news or incident.
New media offers conveniency that traditional media are hard to compare to. In this era, people at least own one mobile device which enable them to view just any news source or even bookstore. There is not much people who would bring out a book, a magazine or newspaper, let alone all three of them, to spend their time while waiting trains or bus tp reach their destination. Most of the people would just turn on their mobile device and mobile data and they can read any news, books or magazine online without stuffing their bag with heavy books and reading materials. 
This picture from the internet showed the usage of both traditional and new media on the train while the passenger are waiting to reach their destination.
In terms of conveniency and efficiency, new media definitely scored better than the traditional media. The existence of new media had made the mass audience became very dependant on electronic devices with internet access.
The above are just a bit of my opinion on how I think new media change mass communication. What do you think?
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