Jan 31, 2014
“Our understandings of what constitutes a “new” medium have shifted in a subtle but significant way. For the better part of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, “new” media were primarily understood as “new” with respect to other media: “new” media forms replaced older forms. […] Yet computers and other digital media actually embody a different model of newness: computers have reached a point where their “newness” references other computers and not other media” (Sterne, 18).