I want to start with few words- create, modify, share, simple. We can put these words together and say about new media- The idea that allows someone to create, modify and share content with friends, colleagues, relatives or even the whole world, using simple and inexpensive tools, as long as he/she has a computer or portable device with internet access.
To me new media is going over several books, while a reading single page a novel. It's like analyzing a poem for couple of hours vs. lots of blog pages on the same poem in a moment. But new media does lack emotions, attachments with the root.
In Friedmans' "The New Media Technologies: Overview and Research Framework" we find a details picture of New Media vs. Old Media. Old media – newspapers, magazines, radio, television – are communication delivery systems. The new media comes up with 5 C's: communication, collaboration, community, creativity, and convergence. These technologies distinguish new media from old media. Examples of new media are- blogs, wikis, online social networking, virtual worlds and other social media forms.
On the age of old media, we had to go over few books or some training to troubleshoot a technical problem. But now we just go surfing- wikis, blogs and specially, YouTube for hands-on tutorial. Clive Thomson's article can be noted here as reference.
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