Monday, 25 June 2012

A review of the impact of new media on public relations: Challenges for terrain, practice and education.


The emergence of the internet had give several opportunities for public relations practitioners to collect information, monitor public opinion on issues as well as to engage in direct dialoged with the public. There are too many definitions of new media. Yet, new media can be recognize by the advancement of technologies that often portable and facilitate communication mobility. In other words, new media facilitate person to person to person communications. There are several medium of new media which are SMS, MMS and the internet.

In terms of public relations practice, new media is helping the public relations practitioners to keep abreast on what is available and what will happen in the future. It is being updated continuously by the new technologies available. Now, new media had helped public relations practitioner to prepare their material faster than before and the role of the practitioners are to make sure the accuracy of each material produced to the public since new media made all materials available online.

Since everything is available online, the public relations practitioners need a technical practice on several editing skills and webpage skills. Furthermore, the role of public relations practitioner is to make sure each material produce reach the audiences. Besides, they need to partially control the material. The emergence of new media had helped the public relations practitioner to communicate with the stakeholders in group thus it help on the increasing of investments. In addition, the public relations territory will be more attractive with the new media. Public relations practitioners will perhaps be seen communicate in a ‘touchy feely’ communication without new media and technologies.

Reviewed by: Zalikha Nadhirah Mohd Nor Azmi
 
Source from: http://www.pria.com.au/sitebuilder/forms/forms/file/34-174/Melanie%20James%20article%20Asia%20Pacific%20PR%20Journal.pdf

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