First, to start off with I just wanted to say that out of
all the books we have to read in class, this is by far my favorite. I believe
the main concept of this book is to show us how new new media has changed the
world and how communication has changed in our lives. “This revolution of
communication encompasses all levels of society.”
In the book New New
Media, the author Paul Levison addresses media as “new new media.” The
reason he calls it new new media is to distinguish the lack of power that new
media such as Amazon and iTunes and The
New York Times online give to producers versus the enormous power that new
new media including Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, put in everyone’s hands. Since
the first social media site was introduced, people immediately responded positively
to it and some people even became obsessed with it. It is a newer concept that
people can now share anything, at any time, with anyone and the best part about
it is that it is completely free for people to use.
This new new media has changed the way people live their
lives. We are all now included in someone’s life when they post something on
Facebook or Twitter. Even with YouTube we can watch something that just
happened to someone because they will post it right away. We live in a world
where everything is instantaneous. We don’t write letters anymore, we write
e-mails. We don’t take pictures with a film camera; we take pictures on our phone.
We don’t make phone calls, we text. Everything we do now is to get an immediate
response. Like Levison stated, “Every Consumer Is a Producer” meaning that
anyone reading a blog can start a blog instantly. This new new media that we
have now continues to evolve and as time goes by, new media will be introduced.
Due to the presence of the subject of blog commenting found in chapter 6 of New New Media I figured I’d start off my weekly blog post assignment by commenting on another classmates post. I want to start off by saying that I absolutely agree with everything Liandra has to say about the book itself as well as the content that she explained. I was hoping to use this comment to begin a discussion about the post, possibly a debate on a subject or expression of a different outlook but I can’t seem to find anything that I don’t necessarily disagree with. I will however attempt to add to the content by elaborating on my opinion of as Liandra stated “the enormous power that New New Media put in everyone’s hands." This could not be more true in the sense that New New Media allows users to feel "heard," Being "heard" doesn’t necessarily mean that millions of people are reading their blog posts or Facebook statuses but that the idea that their post is an outlet of personal expression and its seemingly endless potential exposure allows for the user to feel satisfied believing that their post will be noticed. New New Media being an outlet for personal expressing not only gives anyone the ability to create their own power but also allows for everyone to feel a sense of "power" as well.
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