New Media means basically just that: new media. The latest form of mass communication developed by society always tends to be given this label. In years past it was radio, television, cable TV, satellite TV, etc. Nowadays it tends to be used primarily to talk about emerging digital/electronic communications forms, particularly the internet and the World Wide Web.newpeoplemedia.org/abbreviations-acronyms.htm
New Media is a relatively new (sorry) field that includes all forms of computer-enhanced communication. In addition to digital video, examples of New Media communication are web sites, emails, CD-ROMs, DVDs, streaming audio and video, interactive multimedia presentations, and computer animation. New Media is a convergence of the older styles of communicating with the new, computer-enhanced styles. ...www.newmediabrew.com/terminology.htm
What is Digitisation? (Analogue vs Digital)
In an analogue medium such as an LP record, information is recorded in the form of a direct physical correspondence between the medium and the event that is being captured.
Digital representation involves measuring the original event at frequent intervals and storing those measurements as a string of digitally encoded numbers.
The greater the range of numbers available, the greater is the accuracy and quality of the digitised result.
Data imported into a computer takes up space; the more information used, the greater the storage space required.
In 1977, the world changed with one key stroke when Dave Crocker, a graduate student at the University of Southern California, and his colleagues sent the first electronic mail. That email changed the way humans communicate. Since then, email and similar technology has been connecting people across the globe.Before the emergence of electronic communication, communication meant writing letters, calling on the phone or meeting face to face. Today, we are flooded with possibilities to contact each other. We can send information through emails and online messaging services. We can communicate through text message by mobile phones and some palm pilots.
Online Communication Forms
Image 1. AOL’s online messaging service, AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), is the most popular IM service in America. (Click image for larger version)
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Just came across this posting.
Email was actually invented in 1971 by Ray Tomlinson at Bolt, Beranek and Newman, in Cambridge, Mass.
openmap.bbn.com/~tomlinso/ray/firstemailframe.html
The work I participated in in 1977 was to formally standardized existing practices, rather than to 'invent' anything. Four of us wrote that standrd, called RFC 733.
/Dave Crocker dcrocker@bbiw.net
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