Abstract:
Dual spacization of publishing means emergence of digital publishing in online and offline virtual environments along with analogue publishing. Analogue publishing is a kind of publishing that is produced in the form of physical printed writings as they appear in a single paper, single or many pages newspapers and magazines and books, writings on leaves and pieces of trees, natural skin and leather and artificial papers which are a synthesis of natural material. This kind of publishing had a reified manifestation and could not have been existed without being assisted by material. In this article, at first, differences between digital and analogue publishing will be elaborated, then different dimensions and formats of digital text will be discussed to give transparent picture of the potential and unique capacities and characteristics of the electronic publishing comparing to the traditional publishing systems.
Machine summary:
There is no doubt that the progress of media technologies and emergence of new communications equipment, electronic publications will gain better unique capabilities and thus take newer and more interactional forms in relation to users.
For example, CD-ROMs and Internet websites often fall under the category of information-based publications while electronic mails and newsgroups are included in the group of communication-based publications as the major aim of the latter is to establish synchronous or asynchronous interaction between people (Ludwick and Glazer, 2000).
Electronic books and periodicals, online magazines and newspapers, and even CD-ROMs can be categorized as belonging to the first group, since all these electronic publications were at the outset considered simply as the new forms of traditional media and publications in the virtual space, though they later gained totally distinct capabilities in comparison with the previous media in the course of their development and with the advancement of communications technologies.
Some scholars have described electronic periodicals, which have a variety of types including electronic journals and magazines, as some of the most important tools and products of scientific and scholarly research among other media of electronic publishing (Mishra and Saxena, 2008).
Conclusion: Penetration of Electronic Publishing in the Muslim World In mid 1990s, scholars and researchers of communication studies took interest in exploration of religious themes published by Internet users and unique forms of religions in the virtual space.