Actually, I’m wrong. About my rather primitive definition of New Media, that is.
I should have known better, but in referring to something we received in class that I should have kept in mind, “new media” in effect is quite complicated in its definition, and when digitalized and in some type of software format, new media retains only the very basics of traditional media, or media as we’ve known it up until now. The “newness” of it is in the creative process rather than the final product so to speak.
In other words, while a team may produce a movie short that resembles simple camera work, the actual piece will go beyond the capabilities of that process because of its manipulability via the software that can make it happen. For example, Humphrey Bogart showing up in a current television commercial.
For once, the technology may be keeping pace with creativity and indeed, be further advanced (aside, of course, from the creative mind that conceived and engineered it). What new media offers, then, are the tools to open another door in the mind.
“If I could only fly…”
“You can. Where will you go?”
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology
The Beslan post below is another example of the process, though, wouldn’t you say. You’re working with a space within a space within a space here, and the modularity syncs well.
That post in particular–with a headline, organization into section, photo, personally written post, credits, link, comments–has many of the elements of New Media.
Particularly when I think back to producing a magazine using a typewriter, camera, scissors and rubber cement.