Website Analysis Custom Essay

Report-Individual Task : Based on my presentation >(Facebook)

Introduction

This guide provides step-by-step instructions and comments; if followed properly it will lead to successful completion of your report. However, if after reading this document you still have doubts about how to produce your assignments please arrange a meeting with the module leader.

First Step – Use your feedback
All the information or findings gathered for the presentation must be included in your report unless you have been advised by the module leader to work on a different topic. Do not forget to use the observations made by us during the feedback session at the end of your presentation.

Second Step – Introduction (500 words long)

Offer background information on your website. Avoid long historical accounts and references to statistics that will not be used to support other parts of your report. Focus on explaining the purpose of your new medium and use the existing typologies to classify your website. For instance, the following articles provide useful information about it:

Porter, E (2004) ‘A Typology of Virtual Communities: A Multi-Disciplinary Foundation for Future Research’, Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, Vol 10, (1). http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol10/issue1/porter.html

Deuze, M (2003) ‘The web and its journalisms: considering the consequences of different types of newsmedia online’, New Media & Society, Vol 5, (2), pp.203-230. http://nms.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/5/2/203

Third Step – Analysis (1.500 words long)

In this part of your report you must define the following characteristics: digitality, hypertextuality, interactivity and virtuality, PLUS hypermediacy, immediacy and automation.