Lifestyle
Author
Ying Hua
Description
Nowadays, life style is much difference from the old time. The new appearance of technology, new cultures or minds of people and new environmental condition cause the significant change in all the aspects of our lives. The way of reading newspaper, as part of our life should also adapt the current situation. For example, the online news leads the tradition printed newspaper to an embarrassing situation. Since people can easily find almost all the information they want through the internet browser, why should they buy a piece of newspaper and spend time on it. Compared with the traditional newspaper, electronic newspaper (E-newspaper) has unique advantage sin both the efficiency and convenience. With the growing of the information and search engine technology, this advantage will appear more and more obvious. Hence, we can predict that the traditional newspaper will be changed in order to meet the
Enablers
- Territorial disputes - Israeli-Palestinian Conflict; Afghan War (part of America’s world-wide War on Terrorism); War on Terrorism (Any place, where the USA suspect there is a terrorist presence);
- Terrorist Acts - U.S. Embassy Bombings –(August 8, 1998); Attack on the USS Cole - (October 12, 2000); Terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon - ( September 11, 2001); Tunisian Synagogue Bombing - (April 11, 2002); Bali Bombing —(Oct. 12, 2002); and many others...
- Ethnic Intolerance - Hindu-Muslim Sectarian Violence—(1947-Present); Kashmir Conflict — (1991-Present); China-Tibet (2008)
- Human rights violations - Kosovo War — (1998-1999); Israeli Occupation of Southern Lebanon –(1982-2000);
- Natural resources - Iraq - Kuwait conflict; (All USA interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan?).
Inhibitors
- The group of people who is used to read the newspaper by the traditional way.
- The risk of the innovation may cause the companies to postpone this trend.
Paradigms
- “Washington Post” and “The New York Times” have already stared the business of online reading.
- “The Christian Science Monitor” claims that they will stop publishing the printed newspaper from April, 2009 and only publish the online version.