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TED WARNELL

New media
is a term you see often in cyberspace, not to mention on virtually every page of this site, but what -- exactly -- is new in new media?

I have some ideas about this and will touch on these here, and I'm interested to hear what you have to say about the subject. You are invited to send your ideas about what's new in new media. Got a thought? Send it along to:

   ted@zinen

Some will argue
there is nothing at all new in new media -- that it is all just a lot of hype and old media trucked to the cyberspace of the Web. I'm not sure I buy into this, but what do you think? Is new media really just digitized old media?

It is suggested by others that the Web itself is a new medium of all media, and so anything and everything on the Web is new media (by default, I guess). I'm not sure about this either, but ask again for your thoughts. Is everything on the Web new media?

Notions of interactivity on the Web play a big role in some definitions of new media. There may or may not be much to this argument, though. What do you think about it? Is interactivity the key to new media?

There is a thought that maybe new media isn't so much about the medium/media at all, but more about the potential to do... something... with it. Possibly something new in this media that is the Web. Anyone with ideas about this?

...I am hard pressed to state exactly what the term means...

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