What is New Media?

So what is New Media? The answer is right in front of your eyes!! These new web pages and online devices and forms of communication that make up Web 2.o is New Media. Blogs, YouTube, Facebook, Second Life are examples of New Media. These new technologies not only allow users to receive information online about countless things, but also share and put up information online. Its a two way street making it a highly interactive form of media.
That being said, the internet is very important. No internet means no new media in many cases. Even cell phones which have applications for New Media like Twitter needs an internet connection. The Internet is everywhere, highly accessible. Its free (mostly free atleast) and therefore open to the entire world. It makes the world a smaller place; it allows communication of ideas, life, and business among other things through New Media and the internet.
In many ways this new media is replacing old media. Check this blog out for example. Before you needed to get your writing published for the general public to get access to your writing and the content within it. With New Media, blogging sites makes it available to everyone on the internet. This has led to people getting their news over the net, instead of through old media like newspapers. the article "Clive Thompson on How YouTube Changes the Way We Think," by Clive Thompson ( http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/17-01/st_thompson), discusses how YouTube has become a place for experimental video making. Its a New Media site that can influence people as the article suggested, because video is a powerful way of getting your message across. The technology is available to make home videos on your computer easy.
So what is New Media? I'm sure you can google it.