What New Media Isn't?

What new media isn’t?

As we enter into a new digital age we are trying to pin point and understand what is new media is. To help us understand we can look at different aspects of media and determine if they are apart of new media. The term interactivity is used a lot when discussing new media. With rising technologies we find are self’s interacting with computers in such way that we are finding are selves psychological dependant on this interactive concept.

 “The popular definition of new media identifies it with the use of computer distribution” (Manvich, 2001, p.43). We interact with new media everyday in our lives. With new multi media devices we are interacting with social media websites with the use of hyperlinks. Each time we click on a hyperlink, which brings are up new information (photos, sounds, games, etc). As this is a new and more in depth way in which we interact with media we are growing more dependant on these multi media devices.          

Interactivity is not new media in fact we have been interacting with media since media began. For example if we think of early art and how we interacted with art. When we look at art we study and evaluate what’s it front of us, picking out imperfections in the peace. If we now take a look at how we interact with film and how we theatre and cinema rely on cinematic techniques to try capture the audience’s attention, helping the viewer to comprehend what’s going on the stage or screen.

Bibliography

Manovich, L.(2001),The Language of New Media’ Cambridge, MA: MIT Press