What is New Media?

New Media Technologies include any digital, computerized or networked information and communications. Examples of New Media include: eBooks, Wikis, Blogs, Podcasts, Social Networking, mobile devices, Internet, electronic games and more. There are five critical characteristics of the new media technologies: communication, collaboration, community, creativity, and convergence. Interactive digital media, such us Internet, are replacing old media such as print and television. Randall Stross explains expansion of New Media as "less text, more videos, less reading and more watching , online or offline." Due to online and digital ways of receiving information, content with mass appeal is provided and everyone is a potential consumer and provider so the interaction is two-way.