What is the New Media?

The new media now referred to web 2.0 is a set a communication technologies such as blogs wikis, social networking in which we have facebook, twitter, and my space among others, virtual world and some others social media forms. The most excited part of the New Media is how people can contribute to all of this. People can contribute by commenting on everything that they agree and disagrees with, by creating their own pages and post their own thoughts and ideas of different topics. And also, communicating with other people in a way that is a lot easier, faster and cheaper compared to the past. In other words, people are the most important part of the new media. However, we wouldn’t have this New Media if it was not for the internet, the internet is the other important part of the New Media, even though, internet is been out there for years already, but it has been improved to make it available for this new technologies. Internet is been improved in its speed, its appearance and its prices.