Chapters for Characteristics of new media
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The Internet has raised new possibilities for art, music, literature, and film simply by streamlining familiar activities. Digitization and downloading make it faster, easier, and less expensive to store, distribute, extract samples from, and issue comments on the arts--activities that have already gone on for centuries.
Even though this has sufficed to change the artist's craft and business, a lot more is in store for the arts. The power of Internet-related technologies guarantees they will eventually alter the arts by infusing them with characteristics they could not achieve before (or achieve only with great effort). The early twentieth century saw inventions or wide-spread diffusion in three major technological areas--the phonograph, film, and radio--that transformed the arts in immeasurable ways. The early twenty-first century should bring an even more radical transformation.
We've had revolutions in media many times in history (the invention of writing and printing, the arch, stained glass, acrylic paints). Artists originally used the term medium for the material they were using: oil paints, watercolors, lithography, and so on. In the twentieth century, the word was seen even more in its plural form and included such new media as film, radio, and television. This article uses both meanings of the term, and shines light on the social social significance of the difference between medium and media.
Thus, this article explores new artistic media and forms of expression emerging in the twenty-first century, and the effects of digital networking on them. The article starts with a historical view of the arts and the social changes that accompany them, and features a list of seven characteristics for new media on the Internet.
