Internet technology has made communication much easier and less expensive.
It has attracted many people and has penetrated into people’s daily lives. The mass
media also have accepted the internet. Almost all forms of traditional media, such
as radio, television, and newspaper have extended their work into this new field.
The internet and the world wide web have both significantly influenced modern
journalism. Many television, radio broadcasting stations, and newspapers in
Indonesia operate their sites using internet technology. Internet brings a technical
communication revolution, a fundamental change takes place in the structure of
connections, artificial memories and the reproduction of their content. In online
media allows readers to enjoy browsing their product and service of contents, such
as news feed, podcasts, deskstop alert, news on mobile phones, PDA and others
mobile devices. Online media offer not only text but also digital images, audio file,
and moving images (video). The interactive features of the internet seemingly imply
that online media have more advantages than traditional media forms. So, the
internet have dramatically evolved become new media with characteristic
multimedia, hypertext, interactivity, archives, and virtuality. The most important
structural new media characteristic is the integration of telecommunications, data
communications and mass communication in a single medium. It is the process of
convergence.