Online magazine
A webzine (Portemanteau word formed of the contraction of Web and magazine ) is the transposition on Internet of a Magazine, which it is of a Fanzine or a Périodique realized by professionals.
It is about a Web site gathering original articles, realized by voluntary amateurs or employees, but in both cases without existence on printed paper form. The webzines amateurs are generally free. One speaks about “webzine interactive” when the visitors have the possibility of adding their comments to the existing articles.
Like the fanzines, the webzines are often sets of themes. They are carried out by impassioned, often in team. The topics approached often turn around subjects little covered by the traditional Médias: Cartoon, musics alternate (independent Rock'n'roll, heavy metal, Punk), Roleplay but also Cinema, Internet, etc
Few objective criteria differentiate a webzine amateur from a Personal site: the number of contributors, their passion, the technical quality of the realization are comparable. Usually, one awaits from a webzine a editorial ambition: original contents and a relatively regular publication.
The technical skill necessary can be minimal: the control of the language HTML is enough. Contrary to their counterparts on paper, they profit with Internet from means from publication cheaper and broader diffusion. Some webzines carry out audiences which do not have anything to envy the traditional mediae and some enjoy a certain recognition.
As they replaced the fanzines, the webzines see their importance put at evil by the development of the Blog S, even simpler to implement.
In France, the first webzine was Cybersphère , in 1995, which proposed free articles and the other paying ones. It stopped in 1996 (see this article of September 1996).
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