history of new media
new media in the modern day it seems now well-established that there is little ‘new’ about ‘new media’. As the name of this volume implies, ‘new’-ness is not itself new. Indeed, one of the most central and least controversial themes in the study of media history (as well as many other kinds of history) is the idea that we’ve been here before, that novelty is more ordinary than rare. This idea is both familiar and misleading. For while the intersection of history with new media involves themes that are familiar to those who have studied the phonetic alphabet, print, and broadcast media, the comparisons we often draw between histories of different media do not imply that we are simply re-running that which has come before new media is not really new media can be found in computers they are sometimes being contrasted by old media like television and radio but new media relies on application
