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Reading 9/15 September 15, 2008

Last week when I can come from class I was talking with a friend about what we had discussed, was old media new or was new media really new. At some point within our discussion it was brought up that maybe new media was not totally new but the way that we received me media is. Even then when we were in groups last week in class talking about old media vs. new media. We as a group had come to the idea that again there were parts of new media that where really new, but what is changing it is really the way that we are now receiving media. While reading “Convergence Culture” on pages 13-14 this historian Lisa Gitelman even suggests, “…that old media is always going to be around, but what is going to change is the delivery system.”

Just looking at the past 10 years and all of the innovations within technology has been amazing. Henry Jenkins writes about wanting to find a cell phone that will just make calls, not take picture or listen to music on it. This really got me going, is there new media? Or are the ever-changing technology devices that deliver the media, are those changing what is seen as new media?

http://hot-gadgets-today.blogspot.com/search/label/smartphones