W.A.M.C. Wijayaratne and Faiz MMT Marikar
Online mass media was often linked to the word with online newspapers in this study, which generally refers to an exchange of information. In the recent years there has been much debate on the impact of new communication media on the household online newspapers. In Sri Lanka, online newspapers have been rapid, but lack of work was done to test public acceptance of online news media with respect to printed newspapers. The present study deals with communication revolution of online newspaper media in Sri Lanka. Research was derived into several areas. Main focused area was to find out whether after communication revolution of online newspapers how it was affected the printed newspapers and find out, how readers perceive the credibility of online newspapers with the experiences with the Internet, online newspapers, and familiarity with printed newspapers sociologically analyzed in the study. According to study, a questionnaire for the users was emailed. In addition fourteen individual websites of newspapers were examined and Sri Lankan online news media was a symbol as well as a reflection of Sri Lankan society, finally extremely increasing trend was observed.
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