UNIT 5 TASK1RUBEN SANDRU

DEFINITION OF DIGITAL TEXTS.

• Digital text can be call E-text, ‘’E’’ stand for electronic. E-text is a general term for any document that is read in digital form, and especially a document that is mainly text. Examples

E-magazines

E-newspaper E-book

ANALOGUE HARDWARE

• Analogue is a physical thing that you can touch and feel.

• Analogue device is usually a combination of both analogue machine and analogue media that can together measure, record, reproduce, or broadcast continuous information.

Examples

smartphone,

consolePC

radio

DIGITAL SOFTWARE

• Digital software is something virtual that you can’t touch and feel. Digital describes electronic technology. It can be classed as software. To access to digital software you need a hardware device. Examples of digital software are social media, apps, browsers, video games etc.

E-MAGAZINES

• E-magazines are electronic magazine that works only with a hardware device like smartphone, tables etc. The different between the normal magazine and the e-magazine is that on e-magazine is more useful then the normal ones because with e-magazine you can zoom, you can read any magazines you want. Another good thing about e-magazines that you can read magazines for free. Examples of e-magazines are The Future, Forbes, Time, Black and White in Colour.

E-BOOKS

• E-books are electronic books that work only with a hardware device like smartphone, tablet etc. Now e-books are becoming popular because they can be carry very easy and in one tablet you can have thousands of books. If you have normal books you can’t carry more then three books. Examples of e-books: War Horse, The Fault in Our Stars, Before I Go to Sleep, Harry Potter.

E-NEWSPAPERS

• E-newspaper is a digital newspaper that work only with a hardware device. E-newspaper are easy to use because you can just go to internet to read, then to go to buy it. Usually e-newspaper are read by the people. It’s easy to use an e-newspaper then a normal newspaper because in the e-newspaper you can zoom and read how many newspaper you want but you can’t to in the normal newspaper. Examples of Hindistan Times, The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Daily Mail, The Guardian etc.

DIGITAL COMICS

• Digital comics are electronic comics that works only with a hardware device. The different between the digital comic and the normal comics is that in one device you can have like thousands of comics, another good things about the digital comics is that you can zoom and you can read easy. Digital comics are popular because a lot of teenagers read comics. Examples of comics are Marvel comics, DC comics etc.

SMARTPHONE

• A smartphone is a mobile phone with a smarter operating system. Smartphone is a hardware device that you can access to digital text like e-books, digital comics, e-newspaper and e-magazines. The most popular smartphone brand are IPhone 7 and Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge.

COMPUTER

• Computers are hardware device. It has the ability to store, retrieve, and process data. You probably already know that you can use a computer to type documents, send email, play games, and browse the Web. With a computer you can access to every digital text for examples e-magazines, e-newspaper, e-manuals etc. The most popular computers are Apple Mac, Acer laptop etc.

E-READER

• An e-reader, also called an e-book reader or e-book device, is a mobile electronic device that is designed for the purpose of reading digital e-books and periodicals in other words E-reader is like a tablet but you only read books. Some e-readers are Kindle, Kobo, Nook.

GAMES CONSOLE

• A video game console is an electronic, digital or computer device that outputs a video signal or visual image to display a video game that one or more people can play. In games consoles you can access digital manuals. Examples of consoles are SONT PlayStation 4 and Microsoft Xbox One.

ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF DIGITAL VS. TRADITIONAL TEXTS.

Advantages DisadvantagesYou can have access to more digitals text at once.

Cost a lot of money to buy it.

You can zoom, Change text size Life batteryIs portable You need Wi-Fi

Storage issues Ads