New media 1

• At the forefront of the advent of new media are developments in the way people write, communicate, and create content today
• The changes in the way people write brought convenience to the sending of message to its receivers
• The new media context focuses on the effects and changes that took place in the society as it comes to the digital era
• The expansion of new media's coverage significantly affected everyone that consumes it
• Mediation


  All interactions are somewhat mediated. A person's sense of communication, learning, and survival inevitably transpires through a medium
• Medium


  What initiates a dynamic interaction between people or objects. The intention or message passes through the medium and received by the other end
• The medium extends an individual's perception of the world and other people's perception of them</b>
• New media refers to the developments that took place in the way content is produced, published, and delivered to its audience
• New media does not necessarily mean that it is an out-of-the-box or never before seen platform
• Affordances


  The state where a part of a person or an object's function gets amplified by the use of technology or medium
• Constraints


  The state of being checked, restricted to perform or compelled to avoid some action
• Five kinds of affordances and constraints

  • Doing
  • Meaning
  • Relating
  • Thinking
  • Being
• The first models of personal computers hit the market in the 1970s
• The first dot-com domain name was created in 1985
• The Worldwide Web was invented in 1989
• The public launch of the internet or Worldwide Web was in 1991
• Pentium microprocessor advances the use of graphics and music on PCs in 1993
• Mosaic browser was created in 1993
• Opera browser was launched in 1994
• classmates.com was launched as the first networking site in 1995
• Internet Explorer was launched in 1996 and changed the landscape of web browsing
• sixdegrees.com was launched in 1997 but shutdown in 2001
• Wi-Fi or "Wireless Fidelity" became a part of the computer language that connected computers to the internet wirelessly in 1999
• Friendster and LinkedIn were created in 2002
• Myspace was introduced in 2003
• Safari, Apple's web browser, was introduced in 2003
• Facebook was launched in 2004
• Firefox was created in 2004
• YouTube started curating videos in 2005
• Twitter was launched in 2006
• Google Chrome marked the entrance of Google to web browsing applications in 2008
• Instagram was created in 2010
• The culmination of the technologies and new media platforms the people experience today is the present day
• The first wave of changes in new media was initiated by the telecom industries
• The digitization of content sparked the second phase of the changes with new media
• The rise of new media platforms drastically changed the way we live
• The mode of information acquisition changed from the traditional pages of a book to LED screens
• Data


  Facts (sight, sound, color, odor, taste, words) that exist in the external world
• Information


  Data becomes information when connections are made to form relationships
• Knowledge


  Information becomes knowledge when it is transformed and applied to different situations