Describe new media

In order to consider as a New Media technology, it must contains five characteristics. They are “communication”, “collaboration”, “community”, “creativity”, and “convergence” (Linda Weiser Friedman and Hershey H. Friedman 2008). “Communication” means that the technology that can communicate to one each other, such as blog, which you can post information on your own blog or leave comment on other’s blog. “Collaboration” means that the technology can use work together by many people, such as wiki which many people can work on the same topic together and edit it or change it. “Community” means that the technology is relative to society, such as Facebook and Myspace. “Creativity” means that the technology is well creative, which we all know that media technology changes so rapidly from old to new, such as Flickr which you can upload your own pictures, write description, edit or remove easily . “Convergence” means that the technology combines with different functions into new one, such as from old media (book) into new media (Ebook).

Examples of New Media technologies are Blogs, Wikis, Social networking such as Myspace, Facebook, twitter, Virtual worlds such as SecondLife, Video clips such as YouTube and Social bookmarking. As I point out above New Media must includes five characteristics. New Medias are connecting with Internet and digital devices which provides much more convenience for people and more effectively and efficiently than Old Media.

Examples of Old Media are books, newspapers, magazines, journalism, radio and television. They are hard to move around and hard to update, edit or remove information. Old Media is less convenience, effectively and efficiently than New Media and it has limit of five characteristics that list above.

Cite:
Friedman, Linda Weiser and Friedman, Hershey H., The New Media Technologies: Overview and Research Framework (April 2008). Available at SSRN.