Category: Journalism/Media/Writing

From the Print Media to the Internet

How does the world of the print media approach this new means of communication that is the Internet? How does the Internet take into account the various parts of the print media? A study written in March 1999 and based on many interviews. With many thanks to Laurie Chamberlain...

Chapters

1. Chapter 1

How does the world of the print media approach this new means of communication that is the Internet? How does the Internet take into account the various parts of the print media...

2. Chapter 2

Since December 1997 any Internet surfer can use AltaVista Translation, which translates English web pages (up to three pages at the same time) into French, German, Italian, Port...

3. Chapter 3

MS: "For one thing, the Internet serves other print media. [...] My recently published book, The Kids' How to Do (Almost) Everything Guide, would probably not have been done pri...

4. Chapter 4

I started this list in the summer of 1993. I was trying to find some place to publicize Crash, a print zine I'd recently made electronic versions of. All I could find was the al...

5. Chapter 5

"The Beowulf manuscript is a unique treasure and imposes on the Library a responsibility to scholars throughout the world. Digital photography offered for the first time the pos...

6. Chapter 6

"When we started, the files had to be very small .... So doing the U.S. Declaration of Independence (only 5K) seemed the best place to start. This was followed by the Bill of Ri...

7. Chapter 7

The New York Public Library Digital Collections provide the public with digital versions of books, manuscripts, photographs, engravings, and other items as well as tools to brow...

8. Chapter 8

b) A catalog of archives and special collections: The archival and manuscript collections of research libraries, museums, state archives, and historical societies contain essent...

9. Chapter 9

"In content creation in the multimedia environment, it is very difficult to know who the journalist is, who the editor is, and who the technologist is that will bring it all tog...