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New media is the emergence of multiple forms of old media (video, text, audio) combined and/or hybridized for the purpose of engaging the audience in all faculties of information absorption. It usually is digital in nature, but it doesn't have to be.
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New media is the presentation of audiovisual elements to a narrative. It is the natural evolution and extension of communication capabilities. As text, words are used to describe, to evoke, to exposit. New media is the paring down of text to its most basic functional form, the paring down of audio to be topical, pertinent, and interesting, and paring down video to emphasize details and to present the "experience" of the entire package. To make a biological analogy, new media is the evolution from the sponge, a multi-celled organism in which different parts specizlize in different tasks, to the cell itself: a machine capable of specializing its function internally.
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Interesting analogy -- that NM is a pared-down amalgamation of all media. A more "efficient" form of news?
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