Whats Your Choice : Flipping pages or Swiping Screens?

How e-textbooks, online modules could keep journalism education current?

Technology is observed to be the leading tool for communicating journalism works now. Many are finding the best way to fulfill the needs of college students, whose favorable reading material is observed to still be tangible textbooks rather than sourcing online materials. One of the proposed ideas by Mindy McAdams from University of Florida to actually come in between books and online materials, is actually to create software for mobile tablets and smart phones that play roles as the new kind of book that students can actually carry everywhere.

There should be new updates regularly, which content should go through editing and vetting by the publishers just like normal tangible books. Students can actually purchase the software and its updated version for a flat rate and enjoy updates, instead of waiting for delayed information that come from books which have been written from the past years and is only getting published after a long process of production.

This is actually a workable method that world be appreciated by many students. The only question is if the students now actually own tablets or smart phone to actually be able to use the feature? If they are looking into demolishing the existence of books to be replaced by these tablet software. Widespread use of this tablet technology is expected to hit the world after the year 2011 so McAdams’ idea is actually quite workable (Morley, B 2011). Immediacy of information is actually crucial to the information users now due to the fast growth of information in terms of capacity and volume (Lukasiewicz, J 1994).

The iPad is becoming a common tool amongst students these days.

As of now, many technology has expanded and has been concentrating about integrating their software and product on iPhone’s and other PDA’s for marketing purposes based on the positive respond of consumer services (Bunzel, T 2010).

Coming to a conclusion, due to how fast the technology is moving towards the world of fast technology with a big appetite for immediacy when it comes to information – e-journalism can definitely work over time even if not immediately.

REFERENCE:


Bunzel, T 2010, Tools of Engagement : Presenting and Training in a World of Social Media, John Wiley & Sons Inc, United States, pp. 227

Morley, B 2011, ‘Inside the Industry’ in ‘Understanding Computers in a Changing Society’, Course Technology, United States. pp. 21-22

Lukasiewicz, J 1994,The Ignorance Explosion : Understanding Industrial Civilization, Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data, Canada, pp. 122