Thus far CIS 3810 has been informative. We are learning about the differences between old and new media. Old media would be considered books, newspapers, radio and television. Whereas, new media would be blogs, wikis, podcasts and ezines just to name a few.
You can access new media content using the Internet and browser. The Internet is crucial to new media because it’s the medium that connects all of the computers together so that new media content can be made available to everyone. A browser then makes it easy to search for and display new media content.
New media is replacing old media because it allows for bi-directional communications. Consumers of new media can now participate and respond to information. They can now voice their opinions easily to the world using blogs, twitter and other social networking sites. The power of new media can be seen with the current Iranian protests. The Iranians are using new media such as blogs, facebooks and twitter to coordinate their protesting efforts. In Brooklyn a blog was used to inspire individuals to act and bring down drug dealers in their neighborhood.
New media has opened the door for instant communications between the individual and the mass public.
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