What is New Media?

Source : "The Revolution in Digitised ICTS and Emergence of Social Networking Sites Transformed Media to New Mass Media: A Rise of New Age Media. (INdian Streams Research Jounral, ISSN:- 2230-7850)

New technologies allow us to get information easily and faster but also allows use to interactive with it. The text referes to "birth of a democratic movement" as anyone is enable to report but also post an opinion on the piece of information which could allow society to be truly democratic. Technologies like mobile phones allow people to access information but also produce information, which bypasses traditional information institutions like newspapers/television/radio/books but also governments and large corporations. But does this result in a true image of what occurred?

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New Media is defiantly linked with the rise of the internet as an mass tool. This infographic shows the amount of data created within 60seconds. Really shocking the amount of data people create but what is this impact on all of us?

Something Sherry Turkle explores in her book "Alone Together" is how instant the new media is. We are able to communicate with someone on the other side of the world instantly for free. But does it make us demand more for each other? How is that effecting people?

"Texting is too seductive. It makes a promise that generates its own demand. The promise: the person you text will receive the message within seconds, and whether or not he or she is "free", the recipient will be able to see your text. The demand: when you receive a text, you will attend to it )during class, this might mean a glance down at a silenced phone) and respond as soon as possible. 

(Alone Together, Sherry Turkle. page 265)