{"id":358,"date":"2021-08-25T21:41:03","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T01:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/?p=358"},"modified":"2021-08-25T21:41:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T01:41:03","slug":"new-media-mary-margaret-clouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/08\/25\/new-media-mary-margaret-clouse\/","title":{"rendered":"New Media: Mary Margaret Clouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The idea that there is a limit to the potential \u201cnewness\u201d of media is something I found really interesting. What was \u201cNew Media\u201d five years ago has since transformed or been surpassed by something newer, such as how Musical.ly was repurposed as TikTok. In this keyword, the author references the near-existentialism that comes with constant media progress, specifically the concern that \u201cprocessing speeds\u201d will not be able to maintain an upward trajectory for much longer. If there is concern that technology won\u2019t keep up with media, is it possible that eventually, media may not be able to keep up with human demand? It seems impossible to predict what will come next when considering trends on the internet, or in fashion or comedy, and reading about this keyword made me realize that the same is true for media. The takeover of teen novels and films at the beginning of the 2010s, just to be replaced by Youtube, and then TikTok within less than a decade begs the question: how much can media be condensed? The steady and progressive concentration of media makes me wonder that as we begin to see more \u201cNew Media,\u201d will everything become shorter, smaller, and faster?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea that there is a limit to the potential \u201cnewness\u201d of media is something I found really interesting. What was \u201cNew Media\u201d five years ago has since transformed or been surpassed by something newer, such as how Musical.ly was repurposed as TikTok. In this keyword, the author references the near-existentialism that comes with constant media progress, specifically the concern&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/08\/25\/new-media-mary-margaret-clouse\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5404,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87686,176550],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-keywords","category-new-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions\/359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}