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Already, online text is being translated into video, in order to appeal to a visually-stimulated audience. The phenomenon that is Youtube has started an incredible trend in the news media: citizen-reporting. Just look at CNN's IReport: online news has taken a turn to include (perhaps primarily) a series of viewer-generated news videos.
Video blogging (aka vlogging or vidblogging) is just another example of how text has morphed. Whereas the traditional blog medium was text, this new outlet involves the blogger-turned-vlogger to make entries via webcam.
Even the New Yorker Magazine has adapted its website to include this latest trend. A feature of the website is "The Political Scene," in which a political topic is discussed, not written about. Here, text-turned-audio allows readers of the magazine to listen to new ideas, as opposed to reading them.
So is this the end of text as we know it? Unlikely.
Although it is obviously trendy to reject text for more visual or auditory agencies, written text is still the formal and most accepted way to transfer information, whether an English paper or a company memo. Still, the adaptation of text to other medias seems likely, and should provide for an all-inclusive way to receive information.
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I would definately call myself a membor of the "visually-stimulated audience" you talked about.. I'm thrilled that a lot of reporting is given through video these days!I agree though that text and other medias will most likely work as a team to provide a complete understanding of information, but I hope that video will become the dominant player.
ReplyDeleteLaziness is an important factor here. Reading and writing take more effort than watching a video. regardless of other factors this alone will benefit the rise of video.
ReplyDeleteI think it would be somewhat of a shame. As long as we can figure out a way to incorporate these new trends and developments healthily I'm happy. But if going totally digital or visual based does not seem like a good idea.
ReplyDeleteProgramming a search through text is lightyears easier than through audio or video. At the very least for this reason I think transcripts will become more common if we shift to video.
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