Mobile Applications and their Use in Journalism

Journal Title: Media Literacy and Academic Research - Year 2018, Vol 1, Issue 1

Abstract

This theoretical-empirical contribution deals with mobile applications and the various ways in which they are used in current journalism. The aim is to analyze and then to compare mobile applications of typologically different media - newspapers, magazines and television. In the first part of the contribution, the author deals with brief characteristics of mobile applications and opportunities for their application. The second part of the study deals with the analysis and the resultant comparison of three mobile applications from selected Slovak media according to predefined categories. In this contribution we specifically focus on the category of researched mobile application frequency. The result of the research is the definition of the individual aspects in which applications differ from each other.

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Nikoleta Žišková

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Nikoleta Žišková (2018). Mobile Applications and their Use in Journalism. Media Literacy and Academic Research, 1(1), 54-62. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-299404