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What is New Media (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/New_media)?

New Media is a generic term applied to the many differing forms of electronic communications made possible through the use of personalcomputer technology.  It is also an expression of how this technology relates to traditional forms of media, such as “dead tree” newspapers and magazines.  The biggest difference there is that the “old” media is static; whereas the new media is capable of changing as fast as a story evelopes.

Some examples of new media:

• Web sites
• chat rooms
• blogs
• instant messaging

As the technology improves and permeates our homes, we see traditional media falling to the wayside.  Most do not see the advantage of subscribing to the daily newspaper (http://www NULL.wikinvest NULL.com/industry/Newspapers) or a weekly magazine when the info described between their pages is already digested and processed before it even hit the press.  Over the past few years the number of papers that have ceased publishing has risen due to lack of circulation and growth.  The same can be said of the magazine industry.  With the spread of amature journalism and more of the population going online tog et their news, this trend will continue to accelerate.

The future is new media and with that future, those who are writing the news must be held accountable.  The speed of the Internet for news is astounding.  One example of this was the death of Michael Jackson; thirty minutes before CNN announced that the King of Pop was dead, the news had already hit Twitter (http://twitter NULL.com).  Shortly after his death was verified by television media, accounts of other celebrity deaths ran rampant on Twitter and the blogosphere.  It was quickly found that all these rumours were unfounded.  This alone showed how the new media is still going through growing pains.  In order for us to trust what we read on the Net we often times have to check with several sources to verify what we are reading is true.

In his book “The Vanishing Newspaper (http://www NULL.amazon NULL.com/gp/redirect NULL.html%3FASIN=0826215688%26tag%3Dlazran-20%26lcode=xm2%26cID=2025%26ccmID=165953%26location=/o/ASIN/0826215688%253FSubscriptionId=0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82)”, Philip Meyer (http://www NULL.unc NULL.edu/~pmeyer/) calculates that the first quarter of 2043 will be the moment when newsprint dies in America as the last exhausted reader tosses aside the last crumpled edition.  With the rate things are going, that could come sooner.  With our newspapers either going out of business or totally online, we will see new media become our number one source for what is happening around us.  As this happens, let us hope that the integrity of that news will be much improved and will reflect that of the printed press it has replaced.

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