Understanding New Media 1-7

Understanding New Media 1-7

In these chapters, there are different outlets mentioned in relation to new new media and new media. New new media seems to be relatively free than the new media, this is in terms of additional features that are found on new media.

In these chapters online friendship is discussed on the basis of the ‘friendship’ being real or not. We don’t really know these online friends, but we are linked by common interests that we know. In the reading, New New Media, the way we categorize friends in real life is the same way the reading explains how we categorize online friend. Reading these chapters gave a whole new outlet on these social media outlets and showing how their impacts have changed the world and how people interact in life.

Understanding New Media by Logan define the understanding of how new media is changing our world and how it is impacting older media studies by McLuhan. Among the issues discussed define how technology is an extension of the body and the media, both social and other types, as the extension of the psyche. People tend to carry their phones everywhere they go, using them to get in touch and leaving one behind feels uncomfortable and wrong. On the psyche, adverts usually persuade us to get the newer models of technologies that are developed.

Another point to note is that nothing is forever; this is according to the trend spotted on how websites can be replaced. Basing on McLuhan statement, “the content of new medium is another older medium” and relating it to Myspace and Facebook, it makes sense as to how content of one medium is used on another until users are able to manipulate the new medium formed.