"My New Media Class - so far"

New media has introduced many types of new technologies that facilitate its use. Broadband, bluetooth, blogs, blueray, digital set-up boxes (These boxes can receive digitally transmitted TV and Radio transmissions via satellite), digital storage mediums (generic term for a wide range of storage media such as mini-disc, CD, CD-ROM, Hard disc, floppy-disc etc), encryption, firewalls, flash memory and many more technologies are all part of new media.

New Media primarily relies on the internet, because it allows one to send, access and create vital information instantly. Location and distance are irrelevant as one can transfer any kind of data anywhere around the world, in the blink of an eye. Without the internet it would be impossible to access blogs, wikis or social networking sites.

New Media is constantly changing as improvements are being made to existing media which in turn replaces the old as it becomes obsolete. For example, in the past cassette tapes were used to record and listen to music, then tapes became replaced with CDs and now CDs have been replaced by MP3s which can store much more data, are easier to use and have better quality. If New Media never replaced Old Media, our lives would be very different than the way they are today.



Citations:

http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/michaelwalford/entry/glossary_for_new_media/