So, how do we make sense of new media? How can we guard against our temptation to assume, our implicit sense, even, that everything in our experience of today’s emerging digital media is brand new and unprecedented? And how do we do that while also appreciating the things that really are new or unique to our current cultural context and moment in history?
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We’re going to talk at length about new media. And in our first few installments we’re going to begin by thinking for a bit about what makes a medium new.