Reportr.net: ‘Why new media is a generational term’
February 13th, 2009Posted by Judith Townend in Editors' pick, Online Journalism, Social media and blogging
Alfred Hermida asks if there’s any point in labelling ‘new media’ as a separate category. “The problem with new media is that it a generational definition. New media is ‘new’ to my generation and beyond. The internet didn’t exist when I went to university 20 years ago. We barely had computers,” he writes.
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