MY NEW MEDIA CLASS - SO FAR

According to one of our assigned readings, Friedman, Linda Weiser and Friedman, Hershey H.,The New Media Technologies: Overview and Research Framework(April 2008). pages 1-9. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1116771, “The so-called new media technologies - often referred to as Web 2.0 - encompass a wide variety of web-related communication technologies, such as blogs, wikis, online social networking, virtual worlds and other social media forms… Then we examine and review five critical characteristics of the new media technolgies - the Five C's: communication, collaboration, community, creativity, and convergence.” Web 2.0 technology is part of new media. Web 2.0 is also referred to as "modern internet applications" (second generation web applications).
As discussed on one of my first blog posts, An example would be Flicker, which is a site that allows you to upload and share pictures with the people you want so they can view and print them as well. Google maps and social bookmarking sites are also a clear example of Web 2.0 and New Media. The difference between old media and new media can be seen by looking back at newspapers and replacing them with e-magazines, watching tv series over the internet, blog posting instead of emailing, media sharing, instant messengers, and even reading online versions of books. Furthermore, collaboration and convergence are two of the key characteristics of New Media. Furthermore, mashups, p2p media sharing, blogs, wikis, voip are also examples of new media forms.