Readings "What is New Media"

"What is New media"- Vin Crosbie

The key concepts of Vin Crosbie's definition of New Media is that the traditional mediums are not what they appear. For example, magazines and television are traditional mediums but Crosbie says that try not to think of these as so. Instead, think of them as vehicles for the media.

There are three avenues upon which media can be transported (land, sky, water)

And through these three avenues, communication media has three means to which it can occur.

• interpersonal (one to one)
• mass media (one to many)
• 3rd "New" Medium (many to many)

this 3rd New medium is what excites us the most about the future of technology. The Internet has the ability to completely transform our culture into something no one from the past could have ever imagined.