1.1.5 Distingushing between kinds of new media on Oct. 2, 2007.

First of all, the author says that it's also very significant to take a look at the beyond of the abstraction because we need to "regain and use the term in its plural sense;" technological developments and changing ratios between the old and the new.

New media means:
1. New textual experiences
- such as hypertexts on the internet.
2. New ways of representing the world
- ex) immersive virtual environments, screed-based interactive mulimedia.
3. New relationships between subjects and media technologies
- one way in the old days -> two ways(interactivity)
4. New experiences of the relationship between embodiment, identity and community
5. New conceptions of the biological body's relationship to technological media
6. New patterns of organization and production

Moreover, we're facing a "whole array of rapidly developing fields of technologically mediated production" such as computer-mediated communications, new ways of distributing and consuming, virtual reality, and a whole range of transformations and dislocations of established media.

To sum up, it's not easy for us to separate the old and new media because we already got used to these lives based on the new media without defining it as the new media. However, when we take a look at it little bit more closely, we can distinguish between these two things easily.

1.1.4 Non-technical and inclusive on Sep. 27, 2007

Thesedays, the term 'digital' means little bit... negative, not positive such as simple or out-of-dated. However, we need to look at what 'digital' means or is here.

Digitazing means a process of represent analog signals in 2-digit numbers, 0 and 1. Because of technological limitations or regulation like a capacity of hard disks, there should be some losses of information when the analog signals are transfered into digitals.


Now, let's look at one of the new media's characteristics, inclusiveness.
When we talk about the old media, an image is a visionary thing; in other words, it's physical, stable and stational. An image of new media, however, is totally different from the new one. We call it's sensory; I mean it's inclusive. It could be kind of a thought, idea or something in mind.

Some scholars divided media into two things; pure and inter media. The former one is based on the visionary image. Also, it's just followed by socciety. For example, arts were existing only for high-class people in the old days becuase they were the only people who bought and enjoyed under the situation of that era.

In contrast, as time passed, people tried to break their own thoughts from the pure media. They started to make their own artistic products without being influenced by society. Finally, 'new media' has come up and includes these two kinds of media.


To sum up, 'new media' is a kind of terms which explain a current phenomenon, not a technical or cutural term. It includes everything about this world such as cutures, technics, relations, and so forth. Therefore, it can't be impossible to define the term as a one word. However, we know that we live in this world, and we call it 'new media' world becuase everything around us has changed and developed a lot. Maybe we'll call the next world after the 'new media' world as a super new media world.