Today we talked about what is New Media. I am really starting to hate that question. I mean, what is New Media really? Isn't it self explanatory after all? Why do we all have to get all extra-intellectual with it and have some graduate New Media student describe to us New Media in some impressive language that I really believe does no good to New Media nor its students. New Media defines itself and should not be defined by it's followers. Only thing that can be done is set a mission and vision for the New Media program here at IUPUI and not try to define New Media because I believe that defining it is almost like limiting it. New Media is what it is. It is New Media. But Wikipedia says this:
New media is a term meant to encompass the emergence of digital, computerized, or networked information and communication technologies in the later part of the 20th century.
Most technologies described as "new media" are digital, often having characteristics of being manipulatable, networkable, dense, compressible, and impartial.[1]
Sounds almost like that graduate student lady that tried to describe to us what New Media was. And to Wikipedia, New Media is a 'term'.
Anyway, forget everything you just read! Well, unless you think I am making a good point.
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