1998 MAY 8
What's New? Media
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...
New media
is what Zn is about, and as noted above, the term appears on all
of the pages at this site. It occurs to me, I am hard pressed to
state exactly what the term means, though. Thus the invitation
to Zn readers to send your thoughts. In near future I will post
new info and data collected by this call. Stay tuned...
Would you like to see your work in Zn?
