New media is digital forms of media content that combine and integrate data, text, sound and images stored in digital forms and distributed to large audience for viewing. New media is manipulable at all stages of creation, storage, delivery and use.
New Media Content - Networkable - Can be shared and exchanged between large numbers of users simultaneously and across distances. Dense - Large amounts of information can be stored on network servers. Compressible, Impartial - digital information is indifferent to what forms it represents.
History of new Media - PPT slide Below
A network society emerged at the end of the 20th and 21st century according to Manuel Castells.
Shift from industrial (depending on new energy sources) to informational mode of development (dependent on technology of knowledge generation)
Web 2.0 opened up the viewer to dialogue with the content.
Changes in TV - Increase in using citizens to supply video to CNN - ABC Open - Shifted from creating content publishing USG Content.
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