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By Xigen Li

Internet Newspapers: The Making of a Mainstream Medium examines newspapers on the web, and addresses the emergence of on-line newspapers and the supply of stories via this outlet. using empirical examine, chapters discover the theoretical and useful concerns linked to web newspapers and consider the method by which on-line newspapers have grown right into a mainstream medium. Contributions to this paintings emphasize 3 key parts: the constitution and presentation of newspapers on the web; the medium as an interactive approach; and the ways that the general public interacts with net newspapers.

This assortment makes a considerable contribution to the knowledge of newspapers on the web, overlaying their improvement and adjustments in addition to the effect that information supply via this medium has had on different media, audiences, and society. It additionally sheds gentle on bettering operation and function of web newspapers to higher serve the general public and achieve aggressive wisdom. the amount encourages extra scholarship during this sector, and likewise exhibits how researchers can make the most of an empirical method of their exam of web newspapers.

Internet Newspapers will attract students, researchers, and scholars of journalism and mass communications, and will be used as a supplementary textual content in complex classes masking journalism, verbal exchange know-how, and mass media and society.

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Although the aforementioned findings are presented, for the most part, for all online newspapers, many of these studies reported clear differences based on size of the newspaper. In summary, online sites for smaller circulation newspapers had less content, less frequent updates, fewer multimedia elements, and fewer interactive features than Web sites associated with larger newspapers. Tankard (1998), for example, found that sites with large staffs were more likely than those with small staffs to update content frequently, to add hypertext links to stories, and to provide video or audio clips.

Combining the scores on these four interactive elements to create an interactivity sophistication score showed that the sites used significantly more of these elements over time. 001). Research Question 4: Revenue Sources The fourth research question examined features that could provide revenue for the site. Five advertising features were investigated. 3% of sites, respectively) and became significantly more popular over the 7 years. By 2003, all three were present on more than 95% of sites analyzed.

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