What is New Media?

New Media can be thought of as media in transition. Rather than having a concrete answer, new media can be more clearly defined by the various technologies that compasses it. Most of the credit can be attributed to technology such as Web 2.0, improved mediums in terms of telecommunication services, the increased use of digitization, the innovation of mobile internet, and the creation of various revolutionary websites such as youtube, facebook myspace, bittorrent, wikipedia, and etc. Of course, new media would not have been possible without the use of the internet. New Media in a sense, revolves around the internet. The internet or going online has become a social trend that is easily accessible, and is the foundation of new media. New media isn't exactly replacing the old media. Instead, it is actually forcing the old to evolve and adapt to the new. For example, newspaper companies have been forced to establish online presences in addition to concrete brick presences.1

1. Friedman, Linda Weiser and Friedman, Hershey H.,The New Media Technologies: Overview and Research Framework(April 2008).