New Media

Characteristics of New Media

1. Networked Linkage – Vanishing of fixed place
2. Ubiquity – Made information simultaneously present everywhere
3. Digital – Infinite, Easily altered or edited
4. Space Binding and distance Insensitivity – Information around the world can be
accessed easily.
5. Geographical Insensitivity – Distance makes little difference
6. Personalized – individualized information to each user.
7. Prothesis and Telepresence – Affecting users life daily.
8. Virtually, Virtual Community – created a social environment without having the
need for proximity.
9. Hypertext – Links documents together in such a way that one need not ready
documents in prescribed order.
10. Interactivity – It seeks user input to perform functions based upon it.
11. Push v Pull – Content is “pulled” by the consumer, not “pushed” by the media
organization
12. Convergent – Merged Modal Capabilities, multimedia, and multiple media.
13. Smart Server controlled functions, applications.
Hot Java and Implication
Web TV
Secure modes and transactions
14. Wired, Wireless, Terrestrial and Satellite-based
15. Electromagnetic v Optical

STREAM MEDIA