new media
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[edit]Noun
[edit]- (dated) Interactive digital media, such as the Internet, as opposed to traditional media such as print and television.
- Synonym: cybermedia
- Antonym: old media
- 2006, Robert Hassan, Julian Thomas eds., The New Media Theory Reader, McGraw-Hill Education, →ISBN, page 5:
- What is new media? We may begin answering this question by listing the categories commonly discussed under this topic in the popular press: the Internet, Web sites, computer multimedia, computer games, CD-ROMs and DVD, virtual reality.
- 2009, Natalie Fenton, New Media, Old News, SAGE, →ISBN, page 14:
- The techno-pessimists who see new media as commodified by corporations and the market as any ‘old media’ have also missed the point.
