Friday, September 5, 2008
New Media
I view the term new media as a hybridization of media digitally represented and with which viewers or audience members can interact. This can be a Web page using video and audio to tell a news story, a flash animation complete with images and sound detailing the future track of hurricane, or maybe a slideshow of photos that uses sound and still images, but is NOT a video.
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Hi Rachel,
I like that you have focused so much on the concept of interactivity in your definition. As the piece by Sorapure argues (quoting Manovich), one of the essential elements of new media is that it usually (though not always) requires the active participation of users in some form. While watching a movie is a form of participation, it is not, as you point out, a situation where users' choices or actions actually have an impact on the medium itself. I'll be interested in talking more about this feature of new media in class.- Jenny
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