Thursday, 29 January 2009
week 2 what is new about new media
I am unconvinced that there is necessarily a 'new' media, as everything develops or evolves from something else. For example, Laptops from computers, dvds from vhs tapes, and digital tv from analogue. I beleive that instead of new media and mediums, there is in fact the evolution of technology and consumer demands that cause things to be labelled new media. A more suitable term maybe 'new formats of media'. As media forms grow old, they blend into a new format, such as newspapers, which due to less readership, merge into the internet format, and journalists double up as 'talking heads' on tv shows and tv news.
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this is a viewpoint to what expressed. i think it is fair to say that theres no such thing as new media. The case of analogue tv to digital is interesting because i think its merely changing how we view tv, there may be more channels, but that doesnt change what tv is; its just giving the viewer more options. Sky's option of being able to fast forward, rewind and pause tv, reflects alot on the capabilities of a video player of a dvd. So yeah i agree with your statement
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