Age of the New New

Within the past five years, media has transformed the way we live our lives and interact with others. This concept of "New New Media" is something that has never crossed my mind before. There has been an acknowledgment in my mind that social media has become a major part of everyday life, but it wasn't until this Capstone Seminar class that I realized the true meaning and impact of new new media in today's society. In our last class, we spent the majority of our time deciphering exactly what new new media was. Although the interpretations varied, we eventually came up with a basic meaning that somewhat explained it. My interpretation of new new media is simple. In my eyes, sharing+connecting+interacting+worldwide=new new media. Allow me to explain further. With blogs, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and the many other forms of new new media, we have the capability to not only view thoughts from others globally, but we can provide feedback instantly, create our own opinion for others to comment on, share information over one platform which connects to many others, and recreate ourselves in online communities. So, not only can we interact, share, and connect, but if we choose to, we can also create alternate identities for ourselves online. Although this all sounds great, there are definitely some negatives of new new media that unfortunately have caused a lot of pain in people's lives. Because you can have anonymous identity online, many people hide being these identities in order to use the internet and new new media for, quite frankly, evil purposes. However, I will discuss the negatives in more detail in the next post. See you later.