Personally, I would run through the news papers (printed form) just to know what happening information for the day is. According to Penman (1998) calls this kind of individuals as ‘flippers’. Flippers are readers which are most likely stop to read when something catches their attention. for example of a print is shown below.
Title: The Star newspaper
Source: Goggle images
Virtual newspaper readers allow to scan through the documents simpler (Nielsen 1997). Furthermore, by using the virtual newspaper, it allows quicker, simpler, concise and has the highlighted keywords and hyperlinks for further understanding (Nielsen, 1997). An example of a virtual news paper is shown below.
Title: The Monitor
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Hyperlinks are important as it gives me further information about the concerning issue. Walsh (2006) mentions that hyperlinks allow readers to research more on the particular topic the reader is interested in.
For example, whenever I on my lap top, I always have Yahoo as my start up web page cause it allows me to know the latest happenings. Furthermore, Yahoo provides text, videos, articles which are all related to the particular story.
Title: Yahoo
Source: Yahoo Images
To conclude, I would say both plays an important role in providing information. It depends on how one selects the Medias to suit their lifestyle.
Reference list
Kress, G. & van Leeuwen, T. 2006. Reading images. Chapter 1:
The semiotic landscape: language and visual communication.
Nielsen, J, 1997. How Users Read on the Web, viewed 5th May 2008 at http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9710a.html
Walsh, M. 2006,” ‘Textual shift’: Examining the reading process
with print, visual and multimodal texts", Australian Journal of
Language and Literacy, vol.29, no.1, p.24-37.
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