Introduction: Media and New Media
While the Merriam-Webster online dictionary traces the first known use of the word media in the English language to 1841, tools that facilitate the storage and delivery of human expression have existed for 40,000 years. From Pleistocene-epoch cave drawings to texts produced via movable type, to on-demand video content accessed via personal mobile devices, the means of message production and distribution has expanded from exclusive and local to inclusive and international. During the same period, media have evolved from one-way monomodal communication to interactive, multimodal, social experiences (Kress and Leeuwen 2001).
Though media differ in terms of the types of discourse they support, the way they can be designed, and the means of their production and distribution, it is the extent to which they bridge distance and support multidirectional interaction that largely determines if they are counted as new mediaor not...
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Olmanson, J., Falls, Z. (2017). New Media Literacies. In: Peters, M.A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-588-4_118
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