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August 25, 2019: New Media

"New Media" in my opinion is communication that is accomplished using new-age digital outlets. This includes computers, podcasts, phones, video games, and streaming, among others. New media is a branch of media that reaches out in a different direction than what is considered "old media". This being radio, magazines, newspapers, and film. New media is also social media. A dominant and often controversial channel for spreading information like news, weather, and what you had for lunch today. It's level of use and length of reach is dependent on the user but it is no doubt a prominent aspect of most anyone in the modern world. Ultimately, new media exists firmly under the umbrella of the internet.

August 25, 2019: New Media

Of the information I had read and analyzed, I've identified three aspects of New Media that didn't know before.

• The ever-growing presence of new media and its lack of necessity for a tangible package or container as was present with "old media" is currently affecting our consumer society and the economy. Old media sources like books, video tapes, and vinyl records are marketable products to be consumed. However the centralized control of such products to be marketed and profited off of are still present yet challenged by the digital forms one can find today.

• The ability for philosophers to compare and analyze the similarities between the engineering of a computer and the how the human brain operates because of the way it documents human thought.

• While the new media technologies in the 1990's made their debut in the U.S, places like Japan and Europe more quickly welcomed the concept them than the U.S had. I began to understand much of this was because of the speedy nature of production/assimilation and the difference in perception of the arts in the U.S. and places Japan and Europe.