New Media Studies

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This area examines digital media, such as websites, social media platforms, and mobile applications.

Digital Culture: The study of how digital technologies and networks shape our social, cultural, and political practices.
Media Convergence: The merging of traditional media with digital technologies, resulting in new forms of media production, distribution, and consumption.
Social Media: The study of social networking and other online communication technologies that enable people to create, share, and exchange information and ideas.
Cyberculture: The study of the cultural aspects of computer networks and the internet.
Digital Literacy: The ability to use digital technologies effectively to navigate, evaluate, and create information using a range of digital devices.
Virtual Reality: The study of computer-generated environments that simulate a physical presence in a real or imagined world.
Media Ethics: The study of ethical principles and values that guide the production, distribution, and consumption of media content.
Media Psychology: The study of the psychological impact of media on individuals and society, including media use, effects, and influence.
Quote: "New media are communication technologies that enable or enhance interaction between users as well as interaction between users and content."
Quote: "In the middle of the 1990s, the phrase 'new media' became widely used as part of a sales pitch for the influx of interactive CD-ROMs for entertainment and education."
Quote: "The new media technologies, sometimes known as Web 2.0, include a wide range of web-related communication tools such as blogs, wikis, online social networking, virtual worlds, and other social media platforms."
Quote: "What is different about new media is how they specifically refashion traditional media."
Quote: "Media do not replace one another in a clear, linear succession, instead evolving in a more complicated network of interconnected feedback loops."
Quote: "Unless they contain technologies that enable digital generative or interactive processes, broadcast television programs, feature films, magazines, and books are not considered to be new media."
Quote: "New media are communication technologies that enable or enhance interaction between users as well as interaction between users and content."
Quote: "The new media inspire new ways of thinking about older media."
Quote: "The new media technologies...include...social media platforms."
Quote: "What is different about new media is how they specifically refashion traditional media and how older media refashion themselves to meet the challenges of new media."
Quote: "Broadcast television programs, feature films, magazines, and books."
Quote: "New media are communication technologies that enable or enhance interaction between users as well as interaction between users and content."
Quote: "The new media technologies, sometimes known as Web 2.0, include a wide range of web-related communication tools such as blogs, wikis, online social networking, virtual worlds, and other social media platforms."
Quote: "The phrase 'new media' became widely used as part of a sales pitch for the influx of interactive CD-ROMs for entertainment and education."
Quote: "The phrase 'new media' became widely used as part of a sales pitch for the influx of interactive CD-ROMs for entertainment and education."
Quote: "New media inspire new ways of thinking about older media. Media do not replace one another in a clear, linear succession, instead evolving in a more complicated network of interconnected feedback loops."
Quote: "The phrase 'new media' refers to computational media that share material online and through computers."
Quote: "What is different about new media is how they specifically refashion traditional media and how older media refashion themselves to meet the challenges of new media."
Quote: "New media are communication technologies that enable or enhance interaction between users as well as interaction between users and content."
Quote: "New media inspire new ways of thinking about older media."