Thursday, August 25, 2011

Tristan Hom's New Media Questions Answered

The characteristics of New Media are digital and are usually manipulated, networkable dense, compressable, and interactive. Three similarities between new and traditional media are creating, publishing, and distributing. Three differences between new and traditional media are the digitizing of content into bits, the aspect of content production, and digital more than analog.  Four examples of traditional media include the television programs, magazines, books, and other paper based publications. Four examples of New Media are Internet, websites, computer multimedia, and DVDs. New Media is problematic because of technological determinism-more focused on technology rather than tracing the social networks. A new name for "New Media" could "Modern Media" or "Digital Media".