User:ParkerJennings/NMAC 4460 Journal

August 14, 2019: New Media
New media can mean a numerous of many different things. How I would define new media is: media that allows consumers to interact with it. In this digital age creators can no longer put their media out there and that be the end of it. Now the consumers of the media can directly give feedback and interact with it. This leads to the other major characteristic of new media, it can be modified. Previously when media was released that product that was put out there was definitively the finished thing. New media on the other hand can consistently be in a state of flux, and evolve to meet the demands of the consumers who can now give feedback on it.

August 25, 2019: New Media
Some new things I learned that define new media a little better include a more exact definition of the digital aspect of it. New Media is best characterized by one digital device that has the capability to communicate with another digital device. Connectivity is the major determining factor in new media. Not only is it the ability for digital devices to be able to communicate with each other that is a defining factor of new media, but it is also the combination of many different forms of media that was not possible in old media. New media can also be defined as cultural objects that use digital technology for distribution and exhibition.