| Stands for
electronic magazine. Most of the time these are magazines that only
exist in cyberspace. Every once in a while a well-known print
magazine will also post their information on the
Web. The term ezine
is short for "electronic magazine." "E-zine" and "e-Zine" are
spelling variations. A similar term is "ejournal." There are several
usages of the term ezine. The term is similar to zine, which is
derived from magazine and is used to describe "small press" or
personally distributed magazines or newsletters.
An early use of the term
ezine described a new kind of Web site that contained a stylized
mixture of content (articles, pictures, poetry, fiction, and
comment) conveyed in a way that exploited and celebrated the Web as
a new information medium. Examples include Salon and HotWired. |
