What is New Media?

New media are new type of communication systems that replaced the old types of media. As we may know that in the past we considered media to the newspaper, radio, magazines, and television in which we didn’t need the internet to access them. New media is any type of media that require a digital computer for distribution and exhibition, such as newspaper online, eBook, social networking, wiki, blogs, and YouTube. The article “The New Media and Technologies” by Friedman states that “Today, old media are almost always paired with new media – newspapers and magazines have online versions, as well as their own blogs, television networks produce a great deal of online content related to their programming, etc.” The new media have been enhancing the old media because the old media with the time have been updating themselves to pair with the new media. The new media is something that came to renovate the world of the communication.