WHAT IS NEW MEDIA?

Lately I have been working on improvements of my first blog. I have been adding different applications and features, videos and link lists etc. All that you can find on left side of blog. But then i realized that its all is mostly about view, design of blog and just a little bit about content. Can we say that nowadays design becomes more important than content. If the answer is "yes" - I am quite disappointed in concept of NEW MEDIA.

Specialists Maria Carpenter and Julie Jersyk in my opinion have explained the concept NEW MEDIA in clear way in their presentation: Key concepts in New Media.




“Information and communication technology shapes our perceptions, distributes our pictures of the world to one another, and constructs different forms of control over the cultural stories that shape our sense of who we are and our world. The instant we develop a new technology of communication – talking drums, papyrus scrolls, books, telegraph, radios, televisions, computers, mobile phones – we at least partially reconstruct the self and its world, creating new opportunities for reflection, perception, and social experience...”
--Burnett, Robert and Marshall, David P., Web Theory


So, what is new media for me? As more I think as more I am concern that it is not just design and new tool, but also content is important. However I must admit that interactive platform and nature of internet have changed the form of communication and I will try to explore it in my next post.