What is New Media?

New Media is the classification of the new way to share information and use the resources of the internet. Ranging from auctions, social networking, photo sharing, chatting, research and information sharing and, of course one of the biggest motivator where the money is online shopping. New Media is a true digital revolution. It takes our old ideas of print and broadcast media and amplifies onto the internet which communicates over computers and PDAs. The internet is instrumental in its role as a vehicle to delivering the different aspects of New Media to the people. Internet brings everyone together and allows open free access to all that is waiting to be shared. Most of the old media is being replaced but at the same time its an enhancement. Music is now readily available on the internet but also enhanced because we can put radio stations on the internet just instead of using radio wave frequencies the medium used is now network packet transfers. TV is now also being enhanced by moving to the internet with tv shows being available online. But at the same time content is now vastly being created strictly for the internet taking over the viewers from television broadcasts. DVDs falling short to the vast, usually illegal, movie downloads that can be watched online. The trend, as i have seen many do already, will be integrating the downloads and watching on a normal tv screen.
New Media has taken over and now influencing how entertainment, business and leisure in america is now conducted. Very well said from 'THE NEW MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES:
OVERVIEW AND RESEARCH FRAMEWORK' byLinda Weiser Friedman and Hershey H. Friedman, "The purpose of this paper is to review this so-called new media revolution as a "whole creature" and to attempt to provide a framework of sorts for the purposes of further examination of this phenomenon. We are all affected by the new media. It is not just a small effect here and a small effect there. The new media are dramatically influencing virtually every business, every organization, and every discipline." New Media has become a powerful driving force in on a global scale.