What is new media?

A proliferation of new ways of communicating is requiring us to rethink the ways that we define both the act of writing and the texts that are created. New media, in this context, includes new forms of digital communication. However, "new media" is not limited to texts that rely on new technologies but is instead defined by the rhetorically sound, creative use and repurposing of media. New media is both the creation of texts through the use of new technologies and the new use of older technologies and forms of media.

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