OLD vs. NEW

The most significant way of distinguishing new media from old media is by being able to identify if convergence, communication, collaboration, creativity, and community are part of it. Old media like newspapers, and TV were controlled by their private owner company. And even though those media forms turned into online versions of newspapers and Tivo, users are able to comment on the different articles published or on the TV show being watched. Nowadays, pretty much every time we are online, we are using different forms of new media such as blogs (which I'm using right now), wikis, social networking, P2P file sharing, among others. We are able to identify the 5 Cs of new media in these media forms mostly because they all depend on their users' collaborations, and every opinion and contribution counts.
New Media also differs from old media though the speed that the information is sent and received. New media forms allows faster sharing of information. Old media forms turned into new media forms by having books available in online versions, journalism is seen through blog posts, radio can be heard through podcasts, telephone/email/internet thorough mobile devices such as Blackberry phones, photography sharing through Flickr, and now even socializing through Facebook and other social networking websites.