Reportr.net: Why new media is a generational term
Friday, 13 February 2009, 09:42 via Delicious/martinstabe
"The problem with new media is that it a generational definition. New media is “new” to my generation and beyond. The Internet didn’t exist when I went to university 20 years ago. We barely had computers. But to the 18-year-olds in my class, new media is not new. To them, it is just media." Read More...
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1. kasperbs | 13 February 2009 at 1207
Definitely agree. I think simply digital media would be a better word as that is essentially what it is.
I also prefer the term digital journalism to online journalism. With the technologies enabled today, you simply can not know whether your information will be accessed online or from a third party device that may not even be connected to the web.
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