Describe New Media

New media is all around us! New media technologies include eBooks, social networking, blogs, etc. However, in order to have new media, there must have been old media, but how do we distinguish the two? Old media include newspapers, television, radio, and similar forms of media. I consider new media to be old media, but with a "twist." New media is essentially older media that is more easily accessible or my widely distributed. The table below featured in  Linda Weiser Friedman and Hershey H. Friedman's "The New Media Technologies: Overview and Research Framework," portrays this idea more clearly. It shows the correlation of a specific "old" media to that of a "new" one.

TABLE II – THE OLD VS. THE NEW

Books →	Ebooks, wikis
Journalism →	blogs
Music →	pandora
Newspapers, Magazines →	ezines
Radio →	podcasts
Television →	Full episodes on the web
Telephone →	VOIP
Film →	Amateur videos on the web
Photography →	Flickr, Picasa
Art →	Museums on the web

Also described in The New Media Technologies: Overview and Research Framework," new media is characterized by the 5C's; communication, collaboration, community, creativity, and convergence. New media is generally said to use at least 3 of the 5C's.

Source:
Friedman, Linda Weiser and Friedman, Hershey H.,The New Media Technologies: Overview and Research Framework(April 2008). pages 9-24. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1116771, pp. 9-15.