New media rely on digital technologies, allowing for previously separate media to converge. Media convergence is defined as a phenomenon of new media and this can be explained as a digital media.“
he most prominent example of media convergence is the Internet, whereby the technology for video and audio streaming is rapidly evolving. The term convergence is disputed, with critics such as Lev Manovich pointing out that the 'old' medium of film could be seen as the convergence of written text (titles and credits), photography, animation and audio recording
New Media has become a significant element in everyday life. It allows people to communicate, bank, shop and entertain. The global network of the Internet, for instance, connects people and information via computers.[3] In this way the Internet, as a communication medium of New Media, overcomes the gap between people from different countries, permitting them to exchange opinions and information. Diverse means for this exist even within the context of the Internet, including chat rooms, Instant Messaging applications, forums, email messaging, online video and audio streaming and downloads, and voice-over-internet telecommunications. New Media is defined not only as a communication tool, but also as a tool for the commercial exchange of goods and services.[
transition to new media has seen a handful of powerful transnational telecommunications corporations who own the majority achieve a level of global influence which was hitherto unimaginable.
New Media has been used extensively by social movements to educate, organize, share cultural products of movements, communicate, coalition build, and more.
"virtual communities" are being established online and transcend geographical boundaries, eliminating social restrictions. Rheingold (2000) describes these globalised societies as self-defined networks, which resemble what we do in real life. "People in vi
rtual communities use words on screens to exchange pleasantries and argue, engage in intellectual discourse, conduct commerce, make plans, brainstorm, gossip, feud, fall in love, create a little high art and a lot of idle talk"
new media follows the logic of the postindustrial or globalised society whereby 'every citizen can construct her own custom lifestyle and select her idology from a large number of choices. Rather than pushing the same objects to a mass audience, marketing now tries to target each individual separately.'
New media can be defined not only as things you can see such as graphics, moving images, shapes, texts, and such. It is also things that cannot be seen, such as a Wi-Fi connection. Like radio or electricity, no one can see the Wi-Fi waves in the air floating through the air. But the Wi-Fi concept can be considered new media. So new media can be either concept-based, refer to a solid object, or both.
Flew (2002) stated that as a result of the evolution of new media technologies, globalisation occurs. Globalisation is generally stated as "more than expansion of activities beyond the boundaries of particular nation states".[6] Globalisation shortens the distance between people all over the world by the electronic communication (Carely 1992 in Flew 2002) and Cairncross (1998) expresses this great development as the "death of distance". New media "radically break the connection between physical place and social place, making physical location much less significant for our social relationships" (Croteau and Hoynes 2003: 311).
even some forms of digitized and converged media are not in fact interactive at all
"the global interactive games industry is large and growing, and is at the forefront of many of the most significant innovations in new media" (Flew 2005: 101). Interactivity is prominent in these online computer games such as World of Warcraft and The Sims. These games, developments of "new media", allow for users to establish relationships and experience a sense of belonging, despite temporal and spatial boundaries. These games can be used as an escape or to act out a desired life. Will Wright, creator of The Sims, "is fascinated by the way gamers have become so attached to his invention-with some even living their lives through it" [30]. New media have created virtual realities that are becoming mere extensions of the world we live in.
The advertising industry has capitalized on the proliferation of new media with large agencies running multi-million dollar interactive advertising subsidiaries. In a number of cases advertising agencies have also set up new divisions to study new media. Public relations firms are taking advantage of the opportunities in new media through interactive PR practices.
New media can be seen to be a convergence between the history of two separate technologies: media and computing.
new media can now be defined as "graphics, moving images, sounds, shapes, spaces, and texts that have become computable; that is, they comprise simply another set of computer data.
Any individual with the appropriate technology can now produce his or her online media and include images, text, and sound about whatever he or she chooses. [27] So the new media with technology convergence shifts the model of mass communication, and radically shapes the ways we interact and communicate with one another.
Old media
involve analog processes
as opposed to new media which sample media as a numerical representation in binary code.
This is the best article I've found for this topic. It discusses new media in relation to Manovich's article AND actually interrelates Flew's virtual communities article too! I thought that was pretty cool. It also gives examples of what new media is, and how it is affecting our communities through globalization and social change
New media is a broad term in media studies that emerged in the later part of the 20th century. For example, new media holds out a possibility of on-demand access to content any time, anywhere, on any digital device, as well as interactive user feedback, creative participation and community formation around the media content. Another important promise of New Media is the "democratization" of the creation, publishing, distribution and consumption of media content.
Most technologies described as "new media" are digital, often having characteristics of being manipulated, networkable, dense, compressible, and interactive.[1] Some examples may be the Internet, websites, computer multimedia, computer games, CD-ROMS, and DVDs.
Although there are several ways that New Media may be described, Lev Manovich, in an introduction to The New Media Reader, defines New Media by using eight simple and concise propositions:[4]
New Media as Computer Technology Used as a Distribution Platform
New Media as Digital Data Controlled by Software
New Media as the Mix Between Existing Cultural Conventions and the Conventions of Software
New Media as the Aesthetics that Accompanies the Early Stage of Every New Modern Media and Communication Technology
New Media as Faster Execution of Algorithms Previously Executed Manually or through Other Technologies
New Media as the Encoding of Modernist Avant-Garde; New Media as Metamedia
New Media as Parallel Articulation of Similar Ideas in Post-WWII Art and Modern Computing
he Zapatista Army of National Liberation of Chiapas, Mexico were the first major movement to make widely recognized and effective use of New Media for communiques and organizing in 1994
New Media has also found a use with less radical social movements such as the Free Hugs Campaign. Using websites, blogs, and online videos to demonstrate the effectiveness of the movement itself. Along with this example the use of high volume blogs has allowed numerous views and practices to be more widespread and gain more public attention
New Media has also recently become of interest to the global espionage community as it is easily accessible electronically in database format and can therefore be quickly retrieved and reverse engineered by national governments. Particularly of interest to the espionage community are Facebook and Twitter, two sites where individuals freely divulge personal information that can then be sifted through and archived for the automatic creation of dossiers on both people of interest and the average citizen.[
The new media industry shares an open association with many market segments in areas such as software/video game design, television, radio, and particularly movies, advertising and marketing, through which industry seeks to gain from the advantages of two-way dialogue with consumers primarily through the Internet.
The wiki page has everything one would need to get a brief overview of what new media is. Within the site it gives all the different definitions of new media and how it affects people.
This webpage made me understand more about new media in terms that it talks about new media being interactive. I didn't get that from Manovich's artice.
This was the best website i found because I was honestly confused after reading the article so this breaks it down in less than 20 something pages and makes it easier to understand it explains everything there is to know about new media.
Page full of information on new media (wikipedia)
1 History
2 Definition
3 Globalization and new media
4 As tool for social change
5 National security
6 Interactivity and new media
7 Industry
8 Youth and new media
9 See also
10 References
11 Further reading
Remediation is the incorporation or representation of one medium in another medium.
Generally speaking, remediation is the act of providing a remedy.
According to their book Remediation: Understanding New Media by J. David Bolter and Richard A. Grusin, remediation is a defining characteristic of new digital media because digital media is contstantly remediating its predecessors (television, radio, print journalism and other forms of old media).
Although our culture wants to multiply its media it also wants to erase all traces of mediation. For example, a typical webiste may be hypermediated, offering photographs and streaming video. These media mediate between the viewer and the meaning of the photographs and video. The viewer does not want mediation, an intervening agency, but instead the wants immediacy, a way to get beyond mediation.[2]
Remediation and RealityEdit
Because media intervenes, or mediates between viewers and what is represented, meaning is not immediate. In order to receive the meaning immediately, the viewer can ignore the presence of the medium and the act of mediation or by diminishing the medium's represntational function.
Redmediation as ReformEdit
When a new medium is introduced, users expect that it will improve upon the flaws of the preceding medium and will deliver meaning more immediately. By improving upon a predecessor, new media justifies itself. The rhetoric of remediation favors immediacy and transparency, even though as the medium matures it offers new opportunities for hypermediacy.[4].
Media constantly interact with other media by reproducing and replacing and making other changes
Project 1 replaces technical writing with a comic.
Remediation can be complete or visible.
New Media constantly justifies itself by remediating old media
The viewers received the meaning immediately because the object came from their "real" world; it is not representative of something abstract
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media intervenes, or mediates between viewers and what is represented, meaning
is not immediate. In order to receive the meaning immediately, the viewer can
ignore the presence of the medium and the act of mediation or by diminishing the
medium's representational
-Constant remediation of predecessors: TV, radio, prints, articles, news and other old media
-media is constantly commenting, reproducing and replacing: making changes
- Improve upon old flaws
-Transparency: relating to the ability to see through a particular medium wheather its metaphorical or literal.
This article starts off by providing the general meaning of remediation, "the act of proving a remedy". Rememdiation of the new media is refered to constantly remediating the old media like television, radio. A form of remediation is a film basked on a book. This article discusses the process of remediation by continously commenting on, reporducing, and replacing each other.
This was the best website I found this time because after reading the article I was still confused and had a headache from reading it sideways. This really helps you understand the article and the meaning of all the terms.
This a good website because it gives you a great summary of the key points of the article and it helps get a better understanding of what the author was trying to get across in his work.
This website gives an explanation about remediation and new media. It also gives an explanation of how remediation is defined by predecessors like the television, radio and or old media like journals. Media can interact with other kind of media by reproducing and replacing and making other changes.
I like how this article explains what remediation is and new media. This article talks about the double logic of remediation which are the process of remediation, remediation and reality, redmediation as reform.
This is a great site to reference because there are real videos to check out as examples. The first one includes links to other short videos that are a part of this persons video resume.
In today’s highly competitive job market, creating the right video resume to accompany your traditional CV can make you stand out from the crowd. The wrong one, though, can make you a laughing stock.
1. Make Sure It’s Appropriate
3. Keep it Short
4. Don’t Be Afraid to Be Creative
5. Make Sure It Passes the Share Test
2. Don’t Just Read Out Your Resume
Don’t just create
a video resume because you can, create one because it’s relevant to the job you
want to do.
If you’re applying for a role in the online, media, social or creative
professions, then it’s more likely a decent video resume will have the desired
effect, i.e., getting you invited for an interview.
Don’t send a video resume to a more traditional type of company that won’t
“get it.” You might do your chances more harm than good.
Graeme Anthony, from the example above, is a public relations executive. His
cleverly thought out online content adds an extra wow factor to his already
outstanding experience.
2. Don’t Just
Read Out Your Resume
The whole point of a video presentation is to offer a potential employer
greater insight into you than a traditional resume can, so
just reading
aloud the contents of your CV is a waste of everyone’s time.
Use the video to help the employer get a sense of not just what you have
achieved, but what you are capable of achieving in the future.
“Tell them why you would be the right person to hire and what you can do for
them,” says Mario Gedicke, account manager at Mayomann.com, a video employment platform.
You can, however, highlight particularly relevant info from your resume.
“Focus on your experience and skill set (and possible education/training)
especially relevant to the position,” advises Tyler Redford, CEO of resumebook.tv, an online resume management system.
And if it’s appropriate and relevant to the job (as in the example above),
then don’t be afraid to talk about your passions.
3. Keep it
Short
“Keep your video resume short,” says Gedicke, who advises that a
one-minute mark
is ideal.
Redford agrees that a video resume should be “short and
sweet.” He suggests staying within two minutes.
“Keep in mind that recruiters would likely want to use the video resume as an
initial filter for applicants,” Redford says. “However, recruiters do not
typically want to use the video resume in lieu of a real, in-person
interview.”
Think of your video resume as your own personal teaser trailer. In the
example above, the clip is less than one minute and 20 seconds in length, while
the extra time is made up of a
bloopers reel
accompanied with credits, a clever way to show off your personality (and that
you don’t take yourself too seriously).
4. Don’t Be
Afraid to Be Creative
If you’re opting for a video resume, then go the whole hog and make it
spectacular. Be creative, whether that’s with the concept of your pitch, use of
humor, clever production values or brilliant editing.
However, stay classy. “
Be creative, but
professional. Do not deviate too much from the demeanor you would have in the
workplace
,” says Redford. Gedicke suggests this should extend to your
wardrobe too: “Dress professionally, just as if you are going to an in-person
interview.”
In the video above, James Corne creates a spoof AA-style confession, but
maintains a certain veneer and dresses like he was headed to the office. This
demonstrates creativity and humor whilst showing him to be a professional
person.
5. Make Sure It
Passes the Share Test
As with all online life, don’t put content out there that you wouldn’t be
prepared to see go viral. It’s unlikely your video resume will become an
overnight Internet sensation, but imagining that scenario is a good test to make
sure you could cope if it did.
Imagine your
friends and family watching the clip. If the thought of that embarrasses you,
then don’t submit it.
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Every week we put out a list of social media and web job opportunities. While we post a huge
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If
you’re applying for a role in the online, media, social or creative
professions, then it’s more likely a decent
video resume will have the desired
effect, i.e., getting you invited for an
interview.
. Keep it
Short
3
If
you’re opting for a video resume, then go the whole hog and make it
spectacular. Be creative, whether that’s with
the concept of your pitch, use of
humor, clever production values or brilliant
editing.
However,
stay classy. “
Be creative, but
professional. Do not deviate too much from the
demeanor you would have in the
workplace
,” says Redford. Gedicke suggests this should
extend to your
wardrobe
too: “Dress professionally, just as if you are going to an in-person
interview.”
In
the video above, James Corne creates a spoof AA-style confession, but
maintains a certain veneer and dresses like he
was headed to the office. This
demonstrates creativity and humor whilst showing
him to be a professional
person.
5. Make Sure It
Passes the Share Test
As
with all online life, don’t put content out there that you wouldn’t be
prepared to see go viral. It’s unlikely your
video resume will become an
overnight Internet sensation, but imagining that
scenario is a good test to make
sure you could cope if it did.
Imagine your
friends and family watching the clip. If the
thought of that embarrasses you,
then don’t submit it.
Digital
Marketing Job Listings
Every
week we put out a list of
social
media and web job opportunities
. While we post a huge
range of job listings, we’ve selected some of
the top digital marketing
opportunities from the past two weeks to get you
started. Happy hunting!
As
with all online life, don’t put content out
there that you wouldn’t be
prepared to see go viral. It’s unlikely
your
video
resume will become an
overnight Internet sensation, but imagining
that
scenario
is a good test to make
sure you could cope if it did.
Imagine your
friends and family watching the clip. If
the
thought
of that embarrasses you,
then don’t submit
it.
Digital
Marketing Job Listings
Every
week we put out a list of
social
media and web job
opportunities
. While we post a huge
range
of job listings, we’ve selected some of
the top digital marketing
opportunities from the past two weeks to get
you
started.
Happy hunting!
This was the best and my favorite page that I found on the topic of video Resumes. It goes through 5 simple tips to making a successful video resume and gives an example of each of those 5 tips. The tips are making sure its appropriate, Don't just read out your resume, Keep it short, don't be afraid to be creative, and making sure it passes the share test. A great source and a great page.
This article discusses 5 tips for creating a video resume and it gives a video resume example that best fits that specific tip. The first tip is to make sure the video resume is appropriate by making sure its relevant to the job you are applying for. The second tip is not to just read out the resume but highlighting specific information in the resume that is relevant to the postion you are applying for. The third tip is keep it short by staying within 2 minutes. The fourth tip is to be creative and the last tip is not to create a video that would bring shame to yourself.
This website gives five tips for creating effective video resumes. The five tips are extremely helpful to those looking to create a video resume but aren't sure what should be included or where to start.
DD10 HW 4 This website provides five different ways to ensure video resume success. The videos apply to what they are talking about and then there is a brief written explanation.
According to this article, making a video resume can be a challenge. It offers five tips from "pros in the know," plus actually sample video resumes. The first tip is to make sure a video resume is appropriate. A video resume may be acceptable for certain professions and wrong for others. Secondly, do not just read from the resume. The point of a video resume is to present some additional insight into your character and capabilities. Next, keep the video short, around one minute. Four, don't avoid creativity; let your personality shine through. Finally, if you wouldn't want your family or friends to see the video, then don't submit it.
The top five tips to create an impressive video resume are:
1.Make sure it is appropriate
2.Don't just read your resume out loud
3.Keep it short
4.Don't be afraid to be creative
5.Have several peers edit it before sending it out
I really like this website gives good tips to create a good video resume. You really have to think on making it appropriate, and not just read out of the resume, also keeping it short. Another tip was also to be creative and make sure it passes the share test. Really good tips, and has a video for each and good explanation.
The information found on this website will help to create video resumes that stand out yet are appropriate. The website gives 5 tips through videos to help you such as, making sure it's appropriate, not just reading out your resume, keeping it short, creative, and making sure it passes the share test. With these tips, one would be able to create a video resume that is to the point and sticks out as well.
This book goes over the history of old media and how it came to be what it is today like in Manovich's article on old and new media. It also covers the theory of what new media is and what makes it new media.
I think this page does a good job of describing what Manovich meant by variability in new media. The last statement, "Consequently, new media position the audience as users; able to manipulate and customize the media's experience for themselves to a greater degree than any previous form." is an ideal way to describe this phenomenon. The user of new media plays a huge part in how the media being viewed plays out over time. Interactivity is the cornerstone of this variability principle and I can see it being extended in the future to accomadate our (the users) needs and wants in ever more changing ways.
D8HW3 New Media is an ever growing definition of what is happening in our culture. This page offers several webinars (a new media term) and promises more in the future. A multimedia way to understand the culture growing up next to you
This article provides an additional perspective of the "media revolution." In its ability to transmit knowledge, a medium is a catalyst to open up new possibilities and perspectives to its audience. The media revolution took place when digitalization became a global and universal process. It is also described here as "irreversible;" it involves a great deal of change at the economic, social, political, and cultural levels of a society. This article also covers the process of shifting into a more computerized state; the first stage, for example, involves adapting traditional tasks from the old medium to the new. From there, the people speculate about the future.
New Media: Organizes & structures from experience.
What are they: Web sites, computer games, digital videos, digital cinema, computer animation and multimedia.
To sum: the 5 principals are used to describe the types of media.
I thought this site summarized what Manovich is speaking of very nicely. It is in plain language that I understand and comprehend better.
This website is very in-depth. It gives several examples of what remediation is and also goes into hyperimmediacy. It talks about transparent immediacy as well. It lets the reader know exactly what is ongoing in the media.
I found this article to give an interesting insight to remediation through a different format. The author focuses on how social medias have become a center for marketing. This leads the author to talk about how transparent everything is becoming due to the immediate response from a "tweet" or "status update". Through purchasing anything, the online experience has remediated the face to face experience. Customers now leave their comments on a certain product, and others use this information to persuade their purchase. From this we are now able to even share our purchases through social medias. The real store has been remediated into an online experience and allows for social connection, without the physical connection.
this website helped me to understand manovich a little more because it explains to you more what new media is and the main aspects of it. in the reading we did manovich explained it it much more detail which can be a little overwhelming so this help me to understand it alot more.
Remediation is a great advance and is opening the door to those who do not work with traditional means such as the world of art. The computer allows for a new branch of art although it does revolutionize the way art is made and how it is critiqued.
“media” – suitable vehicles of art, and he proposed that a solution to this “bricoleur problem” will be largely determined by “analogies and disanalogies that we can construct between the existing arts and the art in question” (1980: 43).
Every work of computer art has an interface or display made up of text, images, or sound; and perhaps these provide a basis for constructing the comparisons needed to solve the bricoleur problem. Remediation to the rescue after all? Not so fast.
Some readers will have noticed a sneaky reformulation of the bricoleur problem as concerning what is a suitable medium for appreciation instead of art.
They say that any medium is in principle a suitable vehicle for art.
One appreciates The Sims for how its little dramas are realized through interaction: the interaction is what it is only given the representational elements and the representation is what it is only given the interaction. So, in trying to understand why video games are suitable vehicles for appreciation, why not draw analogies between drama-realized-interactively and drama-realized-by-actors-following-a-script?
Perhaps the analogies we need to solve computer art’s acute case of the bricoleur problem are not to be found by comparing interactivity to media like acting, narrative, depiction, and tone-meter-timbre structures, but rather by comparing the formal, expressive, and cognitive achievements of interactivity alongside those of acting, narrative, depiction, and tone-meter-timbre structures.
. To the extent that the problem pushes
Second, the “normally” requires a word of explanation. It is possible to appreciate a K as a K* (Lopes 2008). For example, it is possible to appreciate a building as a sculpture, though buildings are not sculptures, and it is also possible to appreciate a building as an antelope, though it would probably not come off very well (it depends on the building!).
This video made me think about Transcoding and the use of HTML in new media. This is a tutorial on how to use HTML in the creation of a web page. It gives a lot of really good information about how to make a computer do what you want it do. This is what I think about when it comes to computer language.
In Manovich's article elaborates on five principles that describe new media: numerical, modularity, automation, variability and cultural transcoding. This website discusses transcoding in relation to Manovich's article with 2 examples: mp3 and the the web.
This is actually kind of a summary of the concepts of the Remediation book. This is helpful because you can get a quick grasp of what the book is talking about in a few short paragraphs summarizing the ideas.
This link is to an analysis of Bolter, Jay David, and Richard Grusin. Remediation: Understanding New Media. The MIT Press, 2000. By Time Barrow. It is interesting how the blogger touches on the principles of Transparent Immediacy and Hypermedia. He discusses how the online video conversation (OVC), acts like earlier media in that it makes its presence known to the user by hyper-mediation. Though this type of video does include a face to face view of a recorded person, it separates itself from video conferencing and Skype by allowing the user to pause and ponder responses, respond at request, and post re-recorded responses live. Technologies like this have a huge potential in distance learning with online classes. Imagine your instructors recording their lectures with every view having a front seat in the class. Combine this with the ability to pause the lecture to reflect on information and develop scenarios for different problems that are presented. All while having the ability to ask any question about info covered and re watching any portion of video until clearly understood.
This websites explains what each of the items means and what roles they play in new media. it also goes on to talk about where these items come into play in everyday things that we use like skype and so on.
This website explains what is discussed in remediation and further explains some of the concepts used in the reading. This can be helpful if your looking for some further explanation of the reading.
This is a very clear and informative article about how digital images are developed and where the pixel comes into play. It simplifies the terminology so it is easy to understand. This article relates very well with several of Manovich's principles of new media.
There are virtual communities representing everything from intense one-on-one encounters, people interested in gardening, political and environmental lobbyists to political prisoners (Rosenberg, 2004, p.612). The uses are diverse but all virtual communities on some level provide an interactive forum for communication between its users. The level of communication is often directly related to 1: the needs of the users and 2: the specific purpose of the particular virtual community. Most virtual communities have at least one of three main purposes: either to network and collaborate, provide emotional support or to improve quality of life (Joinson, 2003, p.169)
This is exactly what the article was saying about the different reasons people use virtual communities.
The term ‘virtual community’ was first cited as commonplace by Howard Rheingold, to define the online cultures of those engaging in computer-mediated communication (CMC), establishing “alternative planetary information networks�? (Rheingold quoted in Flew, 2005, p. 62). This was made possible due to the three interrelated components of CMC: the construction of social networks and social capital, the sharing of knowledge and information, and the facilitation of new forms of democratic participation in society (Flew, 2005, p. 62)
This is my favorite of the websites that supplement my understanding of remediation because it does a great job of explaining the subject. It gives great examples of movies and events that involved remediation that I would know and this helped me understand it more.
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I thought this was a great example of remediation because it explains remediation and then uses different examples from movies to help people understand the meaning.
This article analyzing Bolter, Grusin book has fianlly helped me "get it." For some reason this was hard for me to wrap my mind around, but the way it is re-stated here is better for me.
This is a writing from Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin that defines remediation, hypermediacy and immediacy. It has very good descriptions written in a way we can relate to by bringing in examples that are familiar to us like the movie Jurassic Park and the Pathfinder landing on Mars.
This is the best article I've found for this topic. It discusses new media in relation to Manovich's article AND actually interrelates Flew's virtual communities article too! I thought that was pretty cool. It also gives examples of what new media is, and how it is affecting our communities through globalization and social change
