{"id":400,"date":"2021-08-26T14:44:16","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T18:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/?p=400"},"modified":"2021-08-26T14:44:16","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T18:44:16","slug":"new-media-chloe-fandetti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/08\/26\/new-media-chloe-fandetti\/","title":{"rendered":"New Media &#8211; Chloe Fandetti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">New media is a broad and vague term that encompasses any media that is new\/current and delivered digitally. The newness of new media is everlasting. The media that was deemed new in the 1960s (educational broadcasting, filmstrips, transparencies) now seem old and outdated. Likewise, the media that is current or new today will become older in the future. In my life, social media sites such as Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, etc are all forms of new media. When I first downloaded instagram in 2013, it had only been launched a few years prior and was one of the most current forms of social media. Earlier platforms including MySpace, which was once the most visited social media site in the world, had become irrelevant and most young people have never used or heard of it. Over the past decade, Instagram has grown in popularity, but newer platforms such as TikTok have taken over. I\u2019ve noticed that Instagram has been <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/6\/30\/22557942\/instagram-no-longer-photo-app-video-entertainment-focus\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">evolving \u00a0<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">into a platform designed for influencers and businesses to thrive, rather than the average person. I wonder, as new media keeps emerging, what Instagram will be like in the next few decades and will it still be as popular?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New media is a broad and vague term that encompasses any media that is new\/current and delivered digitally. The newness of new media is everlasting. The media that was deemed new in the 1960s (educational broadcasting, filmstrips, transparencies) now seem old and outdated. Likewise, the media that is current or new today will become older in the future. In my&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/08\/26\/new-media-chloe-fandetti\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[176550],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","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\/5395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions\/401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}