Tuesday, 15 March 2016

STATUS OF WEB JOURNALISM IN MALAYALAM

Information spreads like a disease gone on a rampage.Its impact is much more pronounced when it comes in one's own mother tongue.Kerala is ranked among the one of the most literate states in the country.Journalism has played a crucial role in this impressive feat .But now the field of web journalism is revolutionizing the field of information ever more profoundly.

Printed versions of books and periodicals came into existence by the effort of Christian missionaries.
                                                                                     
Rajasamacharam
Rajasamacharam was the first periodical,started in June 1847 as a set of cyclostyled sheets by Dr. Herman Gundert .Keralamithram became the first real newspaper by Devji Bhimji in 1865 in Cochin.
The Deepika became the first malayalam daily which started in 1887.from there came many more daily newspapers Malayala Manorma,Mathrubhumi,Deshabhimani etc.These newspapers played a major role in reforming the social,political,religious and economic conditions in kerala and played major roles in many social reformations movement like Abstention movement.Kerala improved rapidly as time progressed and became well versed in the use of technology and new media.

ADVENT OF WEB JOURNALISM


Kerala telecommunications and VSNL were the ISPs which started in the year 1997 offering internet services in Kerala.A private mobile service provider BPL provided the the mobile telephoning facility in the state.

The starting of online media in malayalam began in 2000, even though there were some newspapers which had online versions but it happened to be the exact copy of the printed form. www.manoramaonline.com was the first malayalam online news portal portal in Kerala.
talking about successful online Malayalam nespaper sites are calicutreview.com,doolnews.com,infomalayalee.com,puzha.com,livevartha.com,Evartha.in, etc.
Harikrishnan PV was the first malayalam online portal  editor and he started Malayalam.indiainfo.com from Bangalore and was later renamed as Thatsmalayalam.com.


The first malalyalam internet television channel started in 2005 as Drishyam TV.
In 2000 weblokam.com was started by webdunia.com which provided real time news but is no longer live.

BLOGGING AND SOCIAL NETWORKING IN MALAYALAM


The trend in blogging is on the rise in Kerala .more and more keralites are joining various blogging sites to open up their own blogging sites.Some use this a platform for sharing information,for spreading ideas and inventions,to make money ,to start charitable activities,to advertise their firms and products,to respond against the social injustices etc. Many are shifting from conventional newspapers and are on the move to blogs to keep themselves updated in the fields that They desire.They also depend on social media like Facebook and twitter a lot.
If one is to travel to Kerala he/she might find  smart phones with almost everyone and they would be keeping themselves online from time to time frequently.

Some see blogging as a means of livelihood and a source of income .Here is a list of blogs which can give profit in terms of money and is among the *top in kerala(*note:this information is taken from 
http://www.jithumpa.com/tech/9-famous-successfully-earning-websites-blogs-from-keralaindia-g-websites-blogs-from-keralaindia/)

EpImatches,Techniqued,Bikes4sale,Mymobilescoop,Vipin Online,MariasMenu,Arun basil lal,Kenney jacob,Binney VA.

Citizen journalists also use web journalism for their work. Nowadays everyone who owns a smartphone or a computer can be a potential journalist and this trend is very much on the rise in Kerala.

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