What is new media?

 

NEW MEDIA: Include

 

Communication studies

Deals with: Processes of communication, or the sharing of symbols over distances in space and time.

 

Examples of topics: television broadcasting; reading of records ; how institutions like libraries maintain information over time; how audiences interpret information…

 

Including: the political, cultural, economic, and social dimensions.

 

Cultural studies

Combines: Political economy; communication; sociology; social theory; literary theory; media theory; film/video studies; cultural anthropology; philosophy; museum studies and art history/criticism to study cultural phenomena in various societies.

Researching: How a particular phenomenon relates to matters of ideology, nationality, ethnicity, social class, and/or gender.

Digital media design

Refers to: Any storage device that holds digital data, including hard and optical discs and USB drives.

And: Any form of information stored in the computer, including data, voice and video; digital media hub, digital media server, media and multimedia.

Such as: Online news, which includes TV network and trade press Web sites, blogs.

 

IT

Describes: Technologies that help produce, manipulate, store, communicate, or disseminate information.

 

ICT

Involves: Arange of technologies for gathering, storing, retrieving, processing, analyzing and transmitting information.

Enables: Individuals and organisations to undertake information-related tasks efficiently, and to introduce innovations in products, processes and organisational structures.

Cyberculture

Emerges: from the use of computer networks for communication, entertainment and business.

 

Media studies

Approach to: Content, history, meaning and effects of various media.

Topics include: The media’s political, social, economic and cultural roles and impact.