As consumers in the digital age, we are constantly exposed to news stories in a variety of different ways through digital media channels. Due to the vast amount of information available, different media channels are able to convey the same story in many different ways. Depending on the platform, consumers are exposed to a certain story, that may encourage different behaviors and highlight different information based on where they are viewing the story. Snapchat (Daily Mail), ABC News, and Hollywood Life, all delivered the story of Jose Fernandez's released autopsy, following the fatal boat crash that killed him in Miami. Daily Mail on Snapchat takes a more visual approach to addressing the story while ABC News and Hollywood Life are more text
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As for the Daily Mail choosing to publish this story on their Snapchat, this can be seen as another affordance for using Snapchat. This is because using a smartphone allows users on Snapchat to have less of a chance of getting distracted than do the users on ABC or Hollywood life. With Snapchat, the user must either scroll through the story or exit out, there are no other options for reading, but with the online news sources, the user is subjected to the Internet’s state of distractedness. In “ 'The Shallows': This Is Your Brain Online”, Carr explains that, the Internet is a “natural state of distractedness”, because we have the opportunity to multitask online. Carr states that, “Multitasking has become so routine that most of us would find it intolerable if we had to go back to computers that could run only one program of open only one file at a time” (Carr, 1). The Internet offers many distractions to reading an article online including, multi-screens, tabs/windows, ads on the side panels, hyperlinks and videos embedded on the webpage. Information provided online is not the same as reading an article on paper because the channel matters and interruptions are more prevalent online (Carr,1). While a user on Snapchat can still receive notifications such as text messages, or updates, in order to read or use their phone in other ways they must close down the Snapchat app, there is no option of multitasking on Snapchat’s news platform. On the application, a user can either read a news story, take a picture of themselves, watch other friends stories, but each of these acts are not simultaneous, which avoids the distraction of
As for the Daily Mail choosing to publish this story on their Snapchat, this can be seen as another affordance for using Snapchat. This is because using a smartphone allows users on Snapchat to have less of a chance of getting distracted than do the users on ABC or Hollywood life. With Snapchat, the user must either scroll through the story or exit out, there are no other options for reading, but with the online news sources, the user is subjected to the Internet’s state of distractedness. In “ 'The Shallows': This Is Your Brain Online”, Carr explains that, the Internet is a “natural state of distractedness”, because we have the opportunity to multitask online. Carr states that, “Multitasking has become so routine that most of us would find it intolerable if we had to go back to computers that could run only one program of open only one file at a time” (Carr, 1). The Internet offers many distractions to reading an article online including, multi-screens, tabs/windows, ads on the side panels, hyperlinks and videos embedded on the webpage. Information provided online is not the same as reading an article on paper because the channel matters and interruptions are more prevalent online (Carr,1). While a user on Snapchat can still receive notifications such as text messages, or updates, in order to read or use their phone in other ways they must close down the Snapchat app, there is no option of multitasking on Snapchat’s news platform. On the application, a user can either read a news story, take a picture of themselves, watch other friends stories, but each of these acts are not simultaneous, which avoids the distraction of