{"id":413,"date":"2021-08-26T22:05:49","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T02:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/?p=413"},"modified":"2021-08-26T22:11:53","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T02:11:53","slug":"new-media-benjamin-cudmore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/08\/26\/new-media-benjamin-cudmore\/","title":{"rendered":"New Media\u2014Benjamin Cudmore"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_414\" style=\"width: 190px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-414\" class=\"wp-image-414 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/files\/2021\/08\/55395D2D-1470-48D8-8338-8849DAF347FC-180x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/files\/2021\/08\/55395D2D-1470-48D8-8338-8849DAF347FC-180x300.jpeg 180w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/files\/2021\/08\/55395D2D-1470-48D8-8338-8849DAF347FC-614x1024.jpeg 614w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/files\/2021\/08\/55395D2D-1470-48D8-8338-8849DAF347FC-768x1281.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/files\/2021\/08\/55395D2D-1470-48D8-8338-8849DAF347FC-921x1536.jpeg 921w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/files\/2021\/08\/55395D2D-1470-48D8-8338-8849DAF347FC-624x1041.jpeg 624w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/files\/2021\/08\/55395D2D-1470-48D8-8338-8849DAF347FC.jpeg 1125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-414\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cNew Media\u201d by Benjamin Cudmore<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When examining the term &#8220;new media,&#8221; one finds that it is often used to describe current forms of media that are newly introduced to society. However, new media is not a specific media platform. Instead, new media is constantly changing since new forms keep being invented or are more prominent in society while others are being forgotten or less utilized. Defined as a form of &#8220;present-mindedness&#8221; in media consumption by Lisa Gitelman, new media is a way to categorize which media is on the rise and classified as &#8220;new&#8221; and which forms of media are on the decline and becoming &#8220;old.&#8221; New media encompasses a variety of platforms such as podcasts, streaming services, or social media apps like <em>Instagram<\/em>. A form of media that can be considered &#8220;new&#8221; is <em>TikTok, <\/em>an app that encourages users to create videos of dances and silly, relatable content. In an era where technology continues to produce more ways to consume media, the type of media it contains will always be never-ending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When examining the term &#8220;new media,&#8221; one finds that it is often used to describe current forms of media that are newly introduced to society. However, new media is not a specific media platform. Instead, new media is constantly changing since new forms keep being invented or are more prominent in society while others are being forgotten or less utilized&#8230;. <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/08\/26\/new-media-benjamin-cudmore\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[176550],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413","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\/413","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\/5393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":426,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions\/426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}