Monday, September 14, 2009

What is New Media?

What is New Media? According to Wikipedia, "New Media is a term meant to encompass the emergence of digital, computerized, or networked information and communication technologies in the later part of the 20th century." Examples of new media technologies are web 2.0, facebook, youtube,etc. Among these technologies, we find common ground between them, and that is the internet. Internet plays an important role in new media technologies, without the internet, we can not access to facebook or youtube, and some other new media.

New media is also consider as a revolution of old media. According to the article, "Who needs a TV? I'm watching on a laptop" by Laura M.Holson, more people choose to watch TV shows via website, such as Hulu or youtube, instead from a traditional television. The benefits of watching TV show online is you dont have to worry about the time, because all the shows are already saved, you can watch them at any time you want. Also, the commercial time is much lesser.

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