For my website "analysis," I chose flickr.com. This is a website for sharing photos--many photographers use this website to showcase their work. I use Flickr frequently, mostly for displaying my photography and receiving feedback on them.
To answer the first question ("Why is a Web site...the best way to present this material?"), I present another question: What other way could material such as this be presented? As digital photography is the way the photography world is going, having a website to display photos is the ideal way to go. Flickr is easy to use, and open for comments regarding photos.
This transitions into the next question ("What advantages over a print text or a live oral/media presentation does this website have?"). I do not think that Flickr could be produced into a print text, but it could be presented orally. However, there would really be no point in making an oral presentation of this website, other than to raise membership and vocalize the website. As said before, Flickr works perfectly well as simply a website.
The third and fourth questions raise issues of a whole new matter. Money is the only way to "translate" this website into print or oral presentation. It would cost a great fortune to produce a printed magazing of the thousands of photos that are displayed on Flickr.
Moreover, it would be less convenient for photographers: not everyone who wanted to publish photos could if Flickr was in print.Many budding photographers, like myself, would be left out of publishing. As I said before, Flickr is a great way to receive feedback on photos, and in print form it would be much more difficult to leave comments on specific photos.
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