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New Media 2010 -2011New Media encompases the Internet,websites, mobile devices, email, chat, streaming audio and video, computer games, podcasts, Internet telephony, and social media. New media uses hyperlinks to interconnect the audience with other people and places. New media can be interactive allowing the audience to create new content and react to existing content. New Media is digital, on-demand,and interconnected and online.
Traditional media such as printed newspapers, broadcast television, radio, magazines, and books are increasingly going online. The first online newspaper was the Palo Alto Weekly in 1994. The New York Times went online in 1996. Today most newspapers present online news. New Media depends on traditional media and traditional media depends on New Media"And for all of the expansion of online news and opinion, says PEJ, this space is still dependent on legacy media for the overwhelming majority of its content--either as aggregated material on sites such as The Huffington Post, or as the basis for original commentary. According to PEJ's analysis of more than a million blogs and social media site, "80% of the links are to U.S. legacy media. ( Pew Report Shows Traditional Media in Decline)" OCED (2010) offered this model of online news:
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Berkman Center for Internet & Society Digital Games Research Association Hoover's Internet Company Profiles |
