Traditional Media vs New Media Discussion

Traditional Media

  • Radio
  • Books
  • Television
  • Magazines
  • Postcards
  • Physical/print newspapers

New Media

  • Websites for newspapers and magazines
  • Skype
  • YouTube
  • Social networking/social media/Facebook
  • Different apps for news
  • Dropbox/cloud-based storage/shared storage
  • Photoshop/digital manipulation of images
  • Wikipedia
  • Virtual forums/reddit/quora digest
  • Augmented Reality
  • Email
  • Online courses/MOOC
  • Online gaming
  • Gamification websites/services/apps

Differences

  • interactivity
  • dematerialized/no longer physical/less personal (face-to-face) interaction
  • speed (traditional/slow and new/fast)
  • more easily accessible (across different devices)
  • more convenient to share (content)

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