My New Media Class- So Far

The New Media course that I am taking turned out to be quite interesting. No, I'm not saying that to please anyone, but this class has given me a different perspective about new media. In this class I am challenged to think about how new media and its' components play a big role in many different topics, such as entertainment, business, politics, and so on. 

New Media is made up of different technologies. The main new media element that is used worldwide is the internet. As mentioned in the reading "The New Media Technologies: Overview and Reseach Framework", some new media tools used on the internet include blogs, virtual words, social networks, and wikis. Other new media technologies include cellphones, computer games, and computers in general. 

As I have mentioned before I feel that the Internet is the main component that represents new media. If the internet did not exist, new media would be very limited. The internet is the main tool that lets us communicate faster and easier and the internet made it extremely easy for people to retrieve any sort of information. New Media is digital and computerized technology  and that is what the internet represents. 

New media is quickly enhancing old media. Old media such as books, magazines, newspapers, and television, are being replaced by blogs, wikis, search engines on the internet, and cellphones as well. Unlike old media, new media gives us what we need quicker. Nowadays people want things right away,  and that is what new media provides us. Today we can even get information from our cellphones. The article "Yahoo's Answer to Speech Recognition for Your Cellphone" tells us that now it's possible to get your questions answered with just the use of a cellphone, thanks to a free service called Cha Cha. New media is definitely saving us time and maybe that is why right now it is more popular than old media.