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Saturday, January 21, 2006 |
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Waxing Poetic About New Media |
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New Media is not only about the use of new technology to create new products, it's the use of technology to create new models of dialogue. New Media is a new conversation only because it allows us access to conversations once held out of reach. New Media is always grassroots, new media is always me and you and no longer them. There is no longer a "they", as in, "They say it's gonna rain today." It rains, and we know it rains because we can show it to one another. New Media is about talking back: when the weatherman says it will rain, we can tell him he's wrong. We can demand a better weatherman. But most importantly, we can become the weatherman. New Media is a new way of speaking. Words like "we" and "us" are more commonplace, replacing the "you" that came from on high, declaring my tastes and fabricating my interests. Now there is an "us", a group of "I", only in unison so much as we're speaking at the same time. We're a cacophony of digressions, dissent, and dialogue. New Media is faith in the idealistic theory that creativity is an innate, latent human ability in need of liberation from the printing press and television screen. New Media, for me, is the hope that all we need to cure the world's ills is to invite more people into the conversation.
Posted by
Eryk @
10:17 PM
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