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THE WEB TURNS INTO THE MAIN SOURCE OF INFORMATION
http://noravank.am/eng/articles/detail.php?ELEMENT_ID=5550
10.03.2011
The Internet wins position on the information field in the world with
an incredible pace. Printed media lose their grounds as a source
of information and now television follows their example of losing
the role of the main informer. At the same time, in recent years
and months, the Internet occupies leading positions among the most
socially active part of the population - the youth.
General growth of the number of the users of the Internet, increase
of the computer literacy rate, reduction of price of communication
and hardware all over the world in general, as well as such factors
as development of mobile technologies, easing of publication of the
information on the Internet, unification of the users in global social
networks, development of the civil web journalism and etc. boost the
increase of the significance of the Internet. At the same time it
is already rather difficult to call this source of information the
Internet in its traditional sense, because today combined network is
formed. Merging of network, computer and mobile technologies is taking
place; combined clusters of information dissemination are formed.
Mobile Internet is doubled Mobile technologies, which transform the
network, have no small part in the shift of the structure of the modern
Internet. According to the State of the Mobile Web1 by Opera Software
Company, the producer of one of the most popular mobile browsers,
the growth of the mobile Internet in 2010 was breaking through. Thus,
the number of the Opera Mini mobile browser users in November 2010 was
about 80 million, and the growth as compared with the November 2009,
constituted 91.8%. The number of the browsed pages on the web for 11
months in 2010 had reached the number of 340 billion; meanwhile the
analogous rate in 2009 was only 129 billion. In fact, for the last
year the mobile Internet has doubled.
Taking into consideration the fact that the number of the users
of smart phones, different pads is growing fast and the price of
the mobile Internet is reducing, one can forecast a qualitative
breakthrough in the sphere of using the Web. However, the breakthrough
can already be observed in the high-tech countries. E.g., according
to Nielson and Forrester Research2, this year in the US the number of
the smart phones and the number of common mobile phones has already
leveled. Currently in the US half of the Facebook users use mobile
access.
Correspondingly, the information field is also being changed; the
Internet users may pass from the background TV watching to the targeted
search of information on the web at any time. The shift towards
the Internet is also boosted by the development of social networks,
blogs and micro blogs, where the exchange of the information among
people who trust each other takes place. Correspondingly, there is no
necessity to monitor the Internet looking for the needed information
- instead of one person the entire network community, which filters
the information field, takes up this function.
Television cedes its positions According to the recent data by Pew
Research Center3, traditional mass media are swiftly loosing their
positions of the news sources for the Americans. Only television is
still challenging the Internet. If for the average American of the
elder generation the Internet has not yet become the main source of
information, for the overwhelming majority of the Americans of 18-29
years old (65%) it has been playing the role of the main source of
news for two years, thus doubling its indices since 2006.
Despite the fact that in the aspect of the maturity of the Internet
the US has essentially outstripped most of the countries, this tendency
is of global character for the rest of the world either and obtaining
such showings is just a matter of time.
Television cedes in Armenia either The decline of the television's
audience is a global trend and it can be observed not only in
such a developed from the point of view of technologies country as
the US. E.g., in Armenia the explosive growth of the Internet use
is accompanied by the processes of recession of the audience of
the traditional television. According to the data for 2007-2009,
published by AGB Nielsen4, both the number of the TV audience and
the time spent before TV has reduced.
Besides, most of the Armenian TV channels are broadcasting on the
Internet too. In particular, main popular shows and programmes are
placed on YouTube. According to YouTube data, the average downloading
speed in Armenia is 1Mb/s. Despite the fact that it is approximately
for times lower than the world rate, however, this speed allows the
users from Armenia freely watch video on the web. Thus, availability
of popular TV shows on the Internet makes them more attractive than
watching them on TV: the Internet allows watching them at any time;
you can watch separate fragments, show it to your friends and etc. In
this connection, we can suppose that such factors, as, e.g., competent
placing of the TV shows on the web will have an impact on the rating
of the TV channels5.
1 http://www.opera.com/smw/2010/11/
2
http://www.mobilemarketingwatch.com/smartphone-owners-to-overtake-feature-phone-owners-by-the-end-of-2011-8708/
3 http://actualweb.ru, http://people-press.org/report/689/
4 http://www.agbnielsen.am/en/news/8/
5 E.g. there have been about 3.5 million viewings of different TV
shows of "Shant" TV Company on YouTube for the recent 9 months.
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheShantTV
"Globus National Security", issue 1, 2011
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ALTERNATIVE AND TRADITIONAL MEDIA IN ARMENIA[02.12.2010] ~UCYBER
TROOPS: NECESSITY DICTATED BY TIME [06.09.2010] ~USUPERFLUIDITY OF
INFORMATION IN SOCIAL NETWORKS[01.06.2010] ~UINCREASING OF THE ROLE
OF THE SOCIAL NETWORKS ON THE MEDIA FIELD[19.04.2010] ~UPROPAGANDA
MACHINERY OF AZERBAIJAN: NEW TENDENCIES [08.02.2010]
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THE WEB TURNS INTO THE MAIN SOURCE OF INFORMATION
http://noravank.am/eng/articles/detail.php?ELEMENT_ID=5550
10.03.2011
The Internet wins position on the information field in the world with
an incredible pace. Printed media lose their grounds as a source
of information and now television follows their example of losing
the role of the main informer. At the same time, in recent years
and months, the Internet occupies leading positions among the most
socially active part of the population - the youth.
General growth of the number of the users of the Internet, increase
of the computer literacy rate, reduction of price of communication
and hardware all over the world in general, as well as such factors
as development of mobile technologies, easing of publication of the
information on the Internet, unification of the users in global social
networks, development of the civil web journalism and etc. boost the
increase of the significance of the Internet. At the same time it
is already rather difficult to call this source of information the
Internet in its traditional sense, because today combined network is
formed. Merging of network, computer and mobile technologies is taking
place; combined clusters of information dissemination are formed.
Mobile Internet is doubled Mobile technologies, which transform the
network, have no small part in the shift of the structure of the modern
Internet. According to the State of the Mobile Web1 by Opera Software
Company, the producer of one of the most popular mobile browsers,
the growth of the mobile Internet in 2010 was breaking through. Thus,
the number of the Opera Mini mobile browser users in November 2010 was
about 80 million, and the growth as compared with the November 2009,
constituted 91.8%. The number of the browsed pages on the web for 11
months in 2010 had reached the number of 340 billion; meanwhile the
analogous rate in 2009 was only 129 billion. In fact, for the last
year the mobile Internet has doubled.
Taking into consideration the fact that the number of the users
of smart phones, different pads is growing fast and the price of
the mobile Internet is reducing, one can forecast a qualitative
breakthrough in the sphere of using the Web. However, the breakthrough
can already be observed in the high-tech countries. E.g., according
to Nielson and Forrester Research2, this year in the US the number of
the smart phones and the number of common mobile phones has already
leveled. Currently in the US half of the Facebook users use mobile
access.
Correspondingly, the information field is also being changed; the
Internet users may pass from the background TV watching to the targeted
search of information on the web at any time. The shift towards
the Internet is also boosted by the development of social networks,
blogs and micro blogs, where the exchange of the information among
people who trust each other takes place. Correspondingly, there is no
necessity to monitor the Internet looking for the needed information
- instead of one person the entire network community, which filters
the information field, takes up this function.
Television cedes its positions According to the recent data by Pew
Research Center3, traditional mass media are swiftly loosing their
positions of the news sources for the Americans. Only television is
still challenging the Internet. If for the average American of the
elder generation the Internet has not yet become the main source of
information, for the overwhelming majority of the Americans of 18-29
years old (65%) it has been playing the role of the main source of
news for two years, thus doubling its indices since 2006.
Despite the fact that in the aspect of the maturity of the Internet
the US has essentially outstripped most of the countries, this tendency
is of global character for the rest of the world either and obtaining
such showings is just a matter of time.
Television cedes in Armenia either The decline of the television's
audience is a global trend and it can be observed not only in
such a developed from the point of view of technologies country as
the US. E.g., in Armenia the explosive growth of the Internet use
is accompanied by the processes of recession of the audience of
the traditional television. According to the data for 2007-2009,
published by AGB Nielsen4, both the number of the TV audience and
the time spent before TV has reduced.
Besides, most of the Armenian TV channels are broadcasting on the
Internet too. In particular, main popular shows and programmes are
placed on YouTube. According to YouTube data, the average downloading
speed in Armenia is 1Mb/s. Despite the fact that it is approximately
for times lower than the world rate, however, this speed allows the
users from Armenia freely watch video on the web. Thus, availability
of popular TV shows on the Internet makes them more attractive than
watching them on TV: the Internet allows watching them at any time;
you can watch separate fragments, show it to your friends and etc. In
this connection, we can suppose that such factors, as, e.g., competent
placing of the TV shows on the web will have an impact on the rating
of the TV channels5.
1 http://www.opera.com/smw/2010/11/
2
http://www.mobilemarketingwatch.com/smartphone-owners-to-overtake-feature-phone-owners-by-the-end-of-2011-8708/
3 http://actualweb.ru, http://people-press.org/report/689/
4 http://www.agbnielsen.am/en/news/8/
5 E.g. there have been about 3.5 million viewings of different TV
shows of "Shant" TV Company on YouTube for the recent 9 months.
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheShantTV
"Globus National Security", issue 1, 2011
Return
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Another materials of author
ALTERNATIVE AND TRADITIONAL MEDIA IN ARMENIA[02.12.2010] ~UCYBER
TROOPS: NECESSITY DICTATED BY TIME [06.09.2010] ~USUPERFLUIDITY OF
INFORMATION IN SOCIAL NETWORKS[01.06.2010] ~UINCREASING OF THE ROLE
OF THE SOCIAL NETWORKS ON THE MEDIA FIELD[19.04.2010] ~UPROPAGANDA
MACHINERY OF AZERBAIJAN: NEW TENDENCIES [08.02.2010]
From: A. Papazian