What Is New Media?

A new media is any communication that is made through the use of computer technology or broadcast digitally. For example, if you’re buying newspaper to read the news, then you’re using the traditional media. But if you like to save the trees and read the news on the Internet, then you’re using new media. Simple right? Right.

Here’s list of New Media from webopedia.com…

• Web sites
• streaming audio and video
• chat rooms
• e-mail
• online communities
• Web advertising
• DVD and CD-ROM media
• virtual reality environments
• integration of digital data with the telephone, such as Internet telephony
• digital cameras
• mobile computing

Reference: Webopedia, http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/N/new_media.html