On 20/3/05 1:45 AM, "jeremy hunsinger" <jhuns@vt.edu> wrote:
I'm inclined to call these communications technologies, just that ICT's, sometimes when I am a bit adventurous, I might venture social media, sociable media or network technologies. but.. they certainly aren't new media anymore, though the genre of new media still exists.
"Not new" for whom? And I don't mean just outside 'developed' countries - I've consistently been amazed by the complete newness and downright illegibility of say, the cultures of mailing lists, or blogging, for high-achieving undergraduate students in all kinds of related fields (media studies, cultural studies, even business and communications). Another 2 cents: as someone sugggested, all these terms (Internet, new media, ICTs) overlap but are not interchangeable - they all have their uses, but 'internet' doesn't actually encompass everything that 'new media' does (which might be concerned with, say, the convergence of TV, internet and mobile phones, etc), and vice versa; same with ICTs. I was using 'digital culture' instead of 'new media' for a while - but reverted to new media because I had to keep explaining what I meant all the time. Jean -- Jean Burgess PhD Candidate Creative Industries Research and Applications Centre (CIRAC) Z1-515, Creative Industries Precinct Queensland University of Technology Victoria Park Road, Kelvin Grove, QLD 4059 Phone: +617 3864 3818 Mobile: 0401 733 755 QUT CRICOS 00213J Reviews editor, International Journal of Cultural Studies Postgraduate representative, Cultural Studies Association of Australasia