MY NEW MEDIA CLASS - SO FAR

ipod, laptop, iphone, etc. are part of the new media. These new technologies are improvement of the old technologies. For instance, people using ipod to listen music instead of using the mp3 or CD player. Laptop is an improvement of desktop computer, which is easy to carry. The new technologies make life easy and fast to move on.

Internet is almost equated to new media. According to the "The New Media Technologies: Overview and Research Framework" stated that "new media technologies - often referred to as Web 2.0 - encompass a wide variety of web-related communication technologies, such as blogs, wikis, online social networking, virtual worlds and other social media forms." (Friedman, 04/05/08) All of these technology have to do with the Internet. Without Internet, people can't go online to get into the blogs, wikis, online social networking, etc. Therefore, without Internet, there is no new media.

New media are enhancing the old media because the new media improve some of the function of the old media. In the old media age, people used to buy the printed newspaper to read. Nowaday, people can read them from the Internet. Based on the article, "Who Needs a TV? I'm Watching on a Laptop" stated that "As pay newspapers lose readers to the Internet, where they can read the same articles without charge, many free papers have held their own." (Miller, B3) It seems that the new media is replacing the old media. With the new media, people even watch TV on their computer instead of the TV. (Holson, B9)

Work Cited:
1. Friedman, Linda Weiser and Friedman, Hershey H.,The New Media Technologies: Overview and Research Framework(April 2008). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1116771
2. Holson, Laura M. "Who Needs a TV? I'm Watching on a Laptop." The new york times 3 Dec. 2008. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/04/technology/personaltech/04basics.html?_r=1&emc=eta1.
3. MILLER, CLAIRE C. "Publisher Rethinks the Daily: It’s Free and Printed and Has Blogs All Over." The new york times 21 Jan. 2009. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/22/technology/start-ups/22blogpaper.html.