At the meeting of Al-Gazira chair for new information;
Dr. Aba Al-Khail : Information section in university is one of the main and distinguished information sections in Kingdom
H. E the university manger Prof. Dr. Suliman bin Abdullah Aba Al-Khail explained that Imam university is considered one of the famous and main Saudi universities which have contributions in multi Sharia, Arabic, social, human and media aspects, and the information section in the faculty of propagation and information in the university is considered one of the main and distinguished information section on Kingdom level, indicating that it includes distinguished competencies and specialized media men in various aspects of press, TV or other information specializations, and added that this section has performed significant roles and achieved far stages during previous period.
H. E Dr. Aba Al-Khail emphasized during his patronage to workshop (The created TV applications in the new media system) which organized by Al-Gazira chair for new media studies yesterday evening in the circled table at conferences & continuous education building, in the university, he emphasized on the importance of information section activity in Imam university to induce the aspirations and deprive support from Al-mighty Allah and then the support that favors from the university in order to develop and activate this section so as to be concerned and enriched the information aspects in Kingdom, clarifying that the most important factors that would activate this aspect is to hold specialized training courses for staff members, lecturers and demonstrators, whether being males or female, who related to this section.
H. E Prof. Dr. Aba Al-Khail explained that the workshop organizing by Al-Gazira newspaper chair for new media (The creative TV applications in the new media system)is a point of welfare and fruitful interaction emerges from this section as we know that the most who in charge of this chair are from information section in the faculty of propagation & information in the university, adding that, it was one of the important courses, programs and activities that enriches the conceptions related to the new media and control this media with new controls that serve the homeland, citizen , achieves public interest and present the true information which the reader and beneficiary requires.
H. E the university manger confirmed that the contribution of the university representing by information section and the chair of Al-Gazira newspaper for the new media studies will not stop at this limit but will be interacted, condensed and given the required concern and care to serve religion,, homeland and achieving the aspirations of our kind rulers.
Then, Dr. Abbas Mustafa Sadiq started presentation of his main paper to the workshop (The created TV applications in the new media system), he said that the theoretical faces of the new media present a group of inquiries on the conception of the new media; does its current stage reflect the transformation of the communication tools and its various applications from the fist of the corporations to the hand of the public? Or before that, as some thinks due to appearance of the new patterns of media forms in TV and radio such as live talk show in Radio & TV , appearance of the direct live news pattern and appearance of two CNN and MTV channels.
He clarified that, the new media may be represented in the threshold of the new communication technologies and satellite TV after Pop Johanna Pools the second’s tour consequences to Poland at seventies end of the last century, establishment of labor consolidatary syndicate, the collapse of the socialist camp, the getting out of the new communication technologies from the grip of militarian use to the civilian use and the replacement of non-preceded media system, which resulted in the spreading of home TV dishes, computer network, internet network, transformation of processing, broadcasting and monitoring means to the digital technology, the variety of portable communication devices, speed pace changes and a new condition of communication system and its conceptions, applications and ways of teaching that replaced a communication system which some described as a convention one or that the new media is something differs from any thing that the presented inquiries in the media prospect could answer, and is a transformation from the physical condition of the information material into that digital data which computer understands?
He clarified that the multi names of the created media applications, refers to a new ground to this media, it is the digital media to describe some applications which depend on digital technology such as digital TV, digital radio and other, or refer to any system or media means that integrates with computer. It is known as interactive media as the condition of presenting and responding among the users of internet, interactive TV & radio and internet press and other new interactive media system is provided. Also, it is the online media in focusing on its application in internet and other networks. Also, it is known as cyber media which comes out from the term cyber space which mentioned by the writer of the scientific imagination stories, William Gibson in his story issued in 1984 under title Neuromancer; the term was taken from Cybermetics Science which known as an automatic control science, the cyber media term means, the world that manufactured from the pure information- which takes – not physically- material form. The term describes the electronic control means which replaced the human performance, but here is used to describe the space of information in internet.
He continued to say, also, the new media is known as Info media to refer to the integration between the computer and communication and the appearance of the new media system that benefits from the development of informatics technology and into which integrated. Also, it is known as hypermedia due to its connected nature and possibility of creating a network of joined information with each other through hyper links, and here we concern with internet features which gave the feature of the hyper and links to what published and broadcasted through them. Also, there are some applications of this created media known as multimedia for the condition of the integration into which occurs between the text, image and video.
He added, we notice the link of some names of computer applications; some of it came out from the communicative mediator nature and other came out from cultural experiences as it is difficult to find a relevant term out side its environment into which grown, also, there are some names indicate a partial application of new media applications or one of its feature as the case of the nomination threshold from internet features and some of its join with other terminal means which widens the definition base and the base of means, applications, characteristics and the impact of the new media in general.
He indicated that the high tech. dictionary defines the new media briefly and describes it as (the integration of computer, computer networks and multimedia).
And according to Lester: (the new media , briefly, is a group of communication technologies that were generated due to the intermarriage between computer, conventional means of media, printing, photography, audio and video).
He clarified that, web encyclopedia known as Webopedia, the term of the new media indicates many created forms of electronic communication system which becomes possible due to computer. The term is also connected with old media system, if we compare between the paper press which features with statistic condition in its texts and images with the new media press we touch the difference in its dynamics and the continuous state of change with which features. Also, the term indicates the capability of conducting the communication between the various kinds of fixed and portable devices which enables the exchange of data vice-versa.
He added that, the principal of the conventional media means depend on fixed and known system; whether from point-to-point such as Telephone, or from point-to-many such as TV and radio, while in the case of the new media and its various applications, specifically those connected to internet, this pattern fundamentally changed, as internet enabled access to all probable forms of communication points.
He clarified that the new media differentiates from the old one with the feature of dialogue with two parties; the owner of the mission and the receiver, however. The separations smelted between the new and old media, because the old one itself was re-formed, improved and reviewed to meet the new one in some of its aspects, indicating that, Negroponte limits the features that the new media favors compared with the previous one in replacing the material units with digital ones or bites not atoms as main tools in carrying data which connected in an electronic forms and not physical ones.
Dr. Fahad Al-Tayash, the chairman of Saudi society for information & communication, participated with a paper into which explained how the new media systems originated, clarifying that its starting was for military acts where used in the both sectors of intelligences and armies. He said the new media system started in 1971-1972, and Japan started in 1975 by drawing a national plan to intermarriage between communication technologies and media content, then followed by Sweden and USA by establishing societies to look for the future which were built on Japanese system, and at the end of his participation Dr. Al-Tayash hoped that the chair of Al-Gazira my place a scientific national plan for the new media and its studies.
Dr. Homoud Al-Khamis explained that we have no initiative for the new media industry and we are just consumers, and that the interactive communication is not existed and the misuse of technology prevails in Arab media, and the Arab world could not cope with the new media beside that we lack the organization of the media and how to know the obstacles and positives present by the new media.
Dr. Al-Khamis indicated that the interactive communication exerted a new technology but the old media means still resist strongly before the new media, he added that, we are in Arab world we didn’t employ technology accurately, saying that the electronic newspapers in Arab world` are not updated and they are just a copy of the printed ones, concluding his participation with an inquiry about how to invest the new media technologies in our Arab world?
Dr. Musaed Al-Mohayah differed with Dr. Al-Khamis regarding the strong resistance of the old media means, explaining that many of non-specialized persons in media became professional in using the new media applications and may bypass the genuine specialists, Dr. Musaed added that the public became participating in the new media applications, indicating the importance of training process and the possibility of investing these technologies for may society individuals and the security risks arise from our using these new technologies.
Dr. Saeed Thabet thinks that the new media is not neutral but it belongs to its society from which born and not for entertainment; it is a social, political and cultural arm. We should know the technical and creative aspects which we could use in dealing with new media.
Dr. Saeed called for the globalization of Arab and Islamic culture and to be marketed as other mass media, also he said tha Arab world is poor in terms of information and we are in-need for information before technologies and need to have a new strategy conforms to the new technologies.
Dr. Hamad Al-Musa said that the content of the new media still is hidden from Arab media and all those who spoke about the risks of the new media on the conventional media, they are right and he added that the new media still depends in its content on the conventional media referring to Al-Arabiah channel site in internet as example.
Dr. Al-Musa requested information sections to present training workshops to formulate the new media content, indicating the importance of organizing censorship on the new media which lacks the creditability.
At the end of the meeting, the chairman of Al-Gazira newspaper, Dr. Abdullah Al-Rofaei agreed with Dr. Sadiq that the new media through mobile telephone requires double effort and the power to recover the hijacked media from communication companies, indicating the public in the old media represents by the human who looks for information, while in the new one there is a large number of information from which the human could select.