“What is New Media?”
We’ve read this before in previous New Media classes. However, it looks like I had forgotten most of this article. At first it really does sound like semantics, but when Crosbie begins to get into the analogy of land, water, and air, it starts to become rather interesting. The analogy was very helpful, especially in expressing how the new medium has both the benefits of the old media without any of the disadvantages that they have. With the new media, content can be individualized and the communication can be more than one-to-one, two disadvantages of one-to-many and 0ne-to-one communication, respectively.
I also like how Crosbie explained that simply displaying old media on technology like the internet does not pass as new media. For example, putting an electronic version of a newspaper online. Like he said, the new media is not necessarily an “electronic extension” of old media.