My New Media class - So far

So far in this class I have learned a lot about New Media and the characteristics of the technologies involved. Technologies that are considered New Media have Communication, Collaboration, Community, Creativity and Convergence (The 5 C’s) as unique characteristics. Second life, social networking, wikis, blogs, social bookmarking, VOIP are few of the web 2.0 technologies that are changing the rules concerning how things get done.

The Internet has helped to foster some of the newly generated technologies available, so I would say that it is very important. Most of web 2.0 applications and technologies are used over the internet; I doubt that people would be blogging in the newspapers. The internet is very necessary for these applications to work and it allows for this second phase of architecture and application development for the Web and new media possible.

New Media is replacing and or enhancing the old media because of the high rate of technological advancement. Almost anything and everything in today’s world can be accessed on the internet. As a result, the major influences in today’s New Media such as commerce, telephony, military, computers and even the media, find ways to keep users engaged in their services. Kathy Gill in how can we measure the influence of blogosphere? outlines that “we now have new expectations about both the right to express an opinion and access to information upon which to base that opinion”People are expecting these changes; no one expects to be using the same services and products from ten years ago. We can now choose to read newspapers online instead of going out to buy one, we can now communicate instantly with people on the other side of the world. Also because of the extent to which information has been digitizes and compressed we converge the old media into new