Mobile Applications and their Use in Journalism

• Authors: Žišková Nikoleta
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

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.

Keywords

EN

The Internet; Mobile Device; Online Journalism; Mobile App; User

• Publisher: Fakulta masmediálnej komunikácie Univerzita sv. Cyrila a Metoda
• Journal: Media Literacy and Academic Research
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 1
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 54-62

Contributors

author

Žišková Nikoleta

• Fakulta masmediálnej komunikácie Univerzita sv. Cyrila a Metoda

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