New Media-Zoey Zeng

In my opinion, media is a platform to share information that is related to different areas including personal, social, cultural, political, economic, and global contexts. I think the “New” is means that the definition of intermediate that can share value and information is keeping update with the development of society and technology. New media plays important role in recording, investigating, and presenting problems of culture and society. New media is also a tool for the government to show what they want the public to know. At the same time, it is one of the simplest ways for people to share their opinions, mood, and experience. Take Weibo, an application like Twitter in China, as an example. You can search some hottest hashtags to know about different things that happen in different areas around the world ever day, which is convenient. You can see people have different perspectives toward the same thing. They may debate or even assault others by word. Since no one knows who you are, people are more willing to express their opinions and establish virtual person in digital world. However, because of the same reasons, they are easy to expose their bad side. They can hurt people inside by typing few words.