old media Archives - Writing for Digital Spaces

J.D Applen helps to show how new media reshapes literacy, which turns readers into creators and communication into collaboration.

New Media, Old Media What’s the Difference?

This blog explores writing as a form of technology as it extends human memory. It distinguishes between written language and computer language

New media transforms and reshapes it doesn’t replace. Manovich’s has five principles that help define and shape our digital world.

New media has disrupted the gatekeeping model. Unlike traditional knowledge systems, new media enables peer-to-peer knowledge creation.

Jay Bolter and Richard Grusin are who bring up this idea. New media is created by old media. Which to me, immediately makes me think of film.

Medium, content, and rhetoric are all intertwined with each other in terms of new media. How do they work together in a digital space?

Everything is always connected and in this text Applen connects these four terms: modularity, interactive, database, and new media.