I'd recommend looking at two collections/readers that take very different approaches to answering that question ("what is new media research?"). The first is the New Media Reader edited by Noah Wardrup- Fruin. The second is The Handbook of New Media (Updated Student Edition) 2006, edited by Leah Lievrouw and Sonia Livingstone. Regards, Dan Dan Perkel PhD Candidate, School of Information University of California, Berkeley dperkel@ischool.berkeley.edu http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~dperkel http://digitalyouth.ischool.berkeley.edu