What is "New Media"?

New Media is a very broad term used to describe technology and its use in society in the 20th and 21st Century. New Media is computers, blogs, social networking, television, youtube, web 2.0, etc. So many different things fall under the term "New Media". A lot of New Media has just been transformed from Old Media, such has news that has become blogs, photo albums that are websites like Flickr and Picasa, TV and Films that we can watch online using Hulu and Youtube. Then there are things that have emerged as a result of New Media, such as social networking on Youtube and Myspace, Virtual Worlds in Second Life, and the bizzare use of telling everyone what you're doing at any given time using Twitter. New Media has come about because of advances in technology as well as our societys need to be able to interact with others, without actually interacting with them in person as well as better ways to do everyday things such as getting the news. New Media has made things easier and allowed for many types of creativty such as short videos on youtube, as seen in Clive Thompson's article in Wired, "Clive Thompson on How YouTube Changes the Way We Think," and mashups of different songs. All of this is able to happen because of the internet. The internet helps because it allows for communication as well as development by many different people all over the world. Overall New Media has been a huge asset to society and will only further evolve as we need it to. We can only begin to imagine what the New Media of the future will be like.