What is New Media?

The term "New Media" refers to the convergence of the many fast, convenient, and sophisticated means we have created over the last hundred years or so to send, receive, store, access, manipulate, and display information.

New Media productions are made possible by the digitalization and standardization of media technologies.  In other words, the functions of books and magazines, stereos and compact disc players, fax machines, televisions, telephones, film projectors, and so on, can more and more easily be handled by a single device (a personal computer, for example), rather than by a whole array of different devices.  This convergence makes the creating, sending, and receiving of complex, interactive,  multimedia messages more simple and more viable than ever before.

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