A cursory definition of "new media" is provided by Wikipedia: "New media usually refers to a group of relatively recent mass media based on new information technology.” (Wikipedia)
Most think new media includes but is not limited to the following: the Internet and World Wide Web, streaming audio and video, chat rooms, online communities, e-mail, video games, virtual realities, interactive media, DVD’s and CD-ROM’s, mobile or wireless computing, highly interactive user interfaces, blogs, telephone and digital data integration, other forms of multimedia popular from the 1990s on.
But new media is much more than the latest technologies. New media has the "power" to impact society, culture, politics, and everyday life. Its dimensions are at the same time both global and local; contemporary and historical; theoretical and practical; communal and individual. New media encompasses issues such as interactivity, virtuality, consumption, innovation, regulation, cyber-cultures, accessibility, identity in cyberspace, time and space in a global culture, and the politics of cyberspace. (New Media and Society, 1999)
Sources:
Wikipedia
New Media and Society
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