UGC NET Study Notes on New Media For Paper-1

• New media is a term used for various kinds of electronic communications that became available due to innovation in computer technology.
• New media could also be defined as any media that is delivered digitally like newspaper, blogs, music, email, streaming apps and podcasts.
• While “old” media includes newspapers, television, books, magazines, and other such non-interactive media, new media is consisting of websites, email, online social platforms, online communities, online forums, blogs, Internet telephony and online video/audio streams.
• Some types of old media have taken new forms like an online newspaper which is also “old media” when coming in the form of a printed newspaper.
• Podcast, smartphone app are entirely new media.
• New media has allowed people to connect people all over the world. It has allowed people to express themselves through the internet by using social media.
• New media does not include analog broadcast television programs, feature films, magazines, or books – unless they are delivered digitally through the use of technology like watching Netflix on TV.

Some of the new media has been defined below:

Wikipedia

• It is an online encyclopaedia which is available digitally.
• It is created and edited by volunteers around the world.
• It begins with its first edit on 15 January 2001

Websites

• It is site or location on the World Wide Web which contain information about a website.
• Each website contains a home page. The home page is the first document which users see when they enter the site.
• The site might also contain additional files, information and documents.
• Each site is owned and managed by an individual, company or organization.
• The first web page went live on August 6, 1991. It was dedicated to information on the World Wide Web project and was made by Tim Berners-Lee.

Blogs

• It is a Web page that is run by an individual and is like a personal journal.
• Author of a blog writes on this webpage about the daily activity or any other thing. It typically reflects the personality of the author.

Streaming audio and video

• You must have heard about Amazon Prime, Netflix, Wink music, Spotify music and many more.
• These are new media tools that are accessible to the public. Some free of cost and some paid.
• User can watch a movie and listen to their favourite music any time using these media tools.

Chat rooms

• It is a virtual room where a chat session takes place among people.
• Technically, it is a channel, but the term room is used to promote the chat metaphor.
• In a chat room, people communicate using on-screen text, typed in real-time.

Email

• Short for electronic mail, it is defined as the transmission of messages over communications networks.
• Typically, the messages are notes entered from the keyboard or electronic files stored on computers or mobile phones.
• Engineer Ray Tomlinson sent the first network email in 1971

Social media

• It enables people to interact with each other as a community.
• A variety of platform, application are available today that enables people to socially interact with each other online.
• Some examples of social media sites and applications are Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, blogs and other sites that have a content based on user participation and user-generated content.
• The first recognizable social media site, Six Degrees, was created in 1997. It enabled users to upload a profile and make friends with other users.

Mobile apps

• Apps are the buzz word used today. Every popular brand have come with their own app for business purpose. It is an another example of new media.
• Apps make the user access the information about products easily.

DVD

• Short for digital versatile disc or digital video disc, a type of optical disk technology similar to the CD-ROM.
• A DVD holds a minimum of 4.7GBof data, enough for a full-length movie.
• DVDs are commonly used as a medium for digital representation of movies and other multimedia presentations that combine sound with graphics.

CD-ROM media

• Short for Compact Disc-Read-Only Memory, a type of optical disk capable of storing large amounts of data -- up to 1GB, although the most common size is 650MB (megabytes).
• A single CD-ROM has the storage capacity of 700 floppy disks, enough memory to store about 300,000 text pages.

Virtual reality environments

• It is an artificial environment created using computer software and hardware.
• A using VR feels that the surrounding around him/her are like a real environment.
• To "enter" a virtual reality, a user dons special gloves, earphones, and goggles, all of which receive their input from the computer system.
• In this way, at least three of the five senses are controlled by the computer.
• The device also monitors the user's action.
• The goggles, for example, track how the eyes move and respond accordingly by sending new video input.

Internet telephony

• In this, user uses the internet as the transmission medium for making telephone calls.
• Internet telephony software provides free calls to a user all over the world.
• To date, however, Internet telephony does not offer the same quality of telephone service as direct telephone connections.

Differences between Traditional Media and New Media

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