Pocket media

Definition

It’s a portable medium/means of transmitting information from one station to another(other stations) either one-way(simplex, two way(half duplex) or simultaneously(full duplex).

 

Pocket media house:

Definition.

It’s a virtual established institution that collects, acquire, organize, repackage and provide mostly current information based on relevant fields of knowledge in respect to the targeted audience.

Characteristics

  1. Doesn’t hold permanent premises.
  2. Information provided is mostly on softcopy
  3. Provides mostly current information
  4. Easily updated
  5. Requires less labour force for its maintenance
  6. Doesn’t require legislation
  7. Virtual in nature

Working

Borrowing from the formal media house, the basics are reporters, editors, sub editors, correspondents, contributors, authors, news anchors and administrators. reporters, contributors and correspondents acquire information and forward it to authors in raw form. In turn editors and sub editors check any errors, grammatical and others and submit the amended draft to authors/typesetters/administrators. It is then the duty of authors/typesetters to transform the draft copy into acceptable form-according to the standards required by the pocket media and in the territorial boundaries- before giving room for the administrators to assent and post the article for consumers/customers/users to read on the proffered media( provided not tangible) it is also the duty of an administrator to design the textual appearance of the document(font. colour, hading style e.t.c)

Merits

  1. Minimal censorship
  2. Easily updated

  3. Less costly
  4. Requires less labour force
  5. Requires no permanent premises for its existence(i.e. Pocket)
  6. It’s a training ground for amateur and upcoming journalists
  7. It’s the best platform for online journalism

  8. Keeps a database of recorded information
  9. Information can easily be updated

  10. Environmentally friendly(no or minimal tangible materials that might  be harmful to the environment)
  11. Surpasses geographical limit

demerits

  1. Doesn’t  provide multi copies

  2. Poor source of confidential information
  3. Prone to attacks by terrorist and hackers
  4. Information can be misused
  5. Copying can hardly be controlled

Compare and contrast Formal media houses and Pocket media houses.

 

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