Lifestyle Transformation Into The Digital
The Arabic Magazine October 2017.
- The classical written (printed) form did not vanish ... it still exists, although its influence has retracted, for the sake of the digital content, which is protracting and increasing, due to the Arabic masses interactions today, similar to other peoples over the globe, using podiums that produce homogeneous expression forms: textual, audible, and visual. As well as the investment of the infographic.
- Perhaps the retraction of the classical printed form is caused by the production mechanism, and the time essential for printing, in comparison to the digital content which publishes any piece of information within seconds, in addition to the nature of society that has changed, and has become dependable on rapidity in everything, the post is no longer used but in a narrow scale, concerning official letters, and it is replaced by the e-mail, the cassette is replaced by the digital disks, the college archives are no longer depending on the microfilm to record newspapers and magazines, it is sufficient enough to use small and mobile hard disks to archive newspapers, magazines and even libraries.
- This transformation of lifestyle towards rapidity, considering the technique as an efficient tool to accomplish it, pushed the classical printed products to benefit from the evolution of the communication methods, henceforth newspapers and magazines are targeting to digitize the content simultaneously with the printed copy, and the paper published book is reproduced into a digital content as an audible file, and a visual video that may contain a presentation of the most important ideas in the book, in addition to the portable document format (pdf).
- It is likely important, to note that, the (reader) of today unfortunately is stagnant, and does not have (enough time) to go through printed encyclopedias and compositions, and to sit for few hours to search and read, for short videos, not over two minutes in duration, are more approachable for him, because they do not put the demands of the continuous reading effort of an essay or a report or even a news item on the receiver, and a vital and effective element is included as well, which is the visual scene and images, that is considered more influential than printed written products, meanwhile short posts on social media websites form a substance of quick interaction with the receiving audience who find in these posts diligent follow-up of his diaries and what is happening in the society.
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