Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Old vs New

Media keeps changing and that is pretty obvious because, otherwise we wouldn't have old and new. Old media can be defined as something that is replacable by something much more advanced and better in everyway. New media is the different things through which we communicate but these, we can not replace if we wanted to. If the new media was replacable then it would be old media. To give specific examples, gramaphones are replaced by cd players, huge tv boxes have been replaced with flat screen tv's, books have been replaced with atleast to an extent by e-books or digital books. As we see the new media is something that is better than what it was before. And maybe when we invent something better than the newest media right now, this media will become old.

1 comment:

  1. I can't say I would agree on new media being more better in every way. Blogs are the replacement of journals, but I barely see any blogs of note while there are plenty of prestigious journals. And the internet seems to be cluttered with garbage.

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