CIS New Media

This course is a "fresh class" in the sense that we discuss topics that are fresh and innovating and are part of our everyday lives. My definiton of New Media is any kind of technology used at the present point in time in any aspect of our lives is considered New Media. Based on www.webopedia.com, the definition of New Media is "in relation to “old” media forms, such as print newspapers and magazines, that are static representations of text and graphics. New media includes:

• Web sites
• streaming audio and video
• chat rooms
• e-mail
• online communities
• Web advertising
• DVD and CD-ROM media
• virtual reality environments
• integration of digital data with the telephone, such as Internet telephony
• digital cameras
• mobile computing"

New Media can not be summed up into a one sentence definition, but into a list of technology that is being used and developed today. A ipod may be considered new media at this point in time but in the next 10 years it will be considered old media for the present people.