What Is New Media

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What Is New Media? According to the Urban Dictionary, 2005, “New media usually refers to a group of relatively recent mass media based on new information technology. Most frequently the label would be understood to include the Internet and World Wide Web, video games and interactive media, CD-ROM and other forms of multimedia popular from the 1990s on.” New Media comprises of all writing or audio-visual production intended for the Internet, mobile devices, evolving technological devices such as smart phones and pads, or any other platform thought of as “new media” by the rising technological industry. However, the widespread conception of new media identifies it with the usage of a computer for supply and demonstration of information rather than production. For that reason, texts distributed on a computer (Web sites and electronic books) are considered to be new media, while texts distributed on paper are not. Likewise, pictures that are put on a Flash drive and need a computer to be viewed are considered new media; the same pictures printed in a book are not. What Is The Internet? The internet in simple terms is a network of interlinked computer networking worldwide, which is fully reachable to the general public, except in limited regions around the globe. Internet is such an enormous network of numerous different interconnected networks relating to business, government, academic, and even less significant domestic networks, therefore internet is known as “the network of all the other networks”, as portrayed by Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, so called ‘inventor of the World Wide Web, in an interview at the World Wide Web Consortium in 2008. These networks allow the internet to be utilised for numerous vital purposes including the numerous avenues of communications like the online chat and even the sharing of documents and web sites on the World Wide
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