What is New Media?

As the second proposition of Manovich's "New Media from Borges to HTML" states, a lot of different technologies qualify as New Media. Internet, Web sites, computer games, CD's/DVD's, movies, and much much MORE! This has to be updated quite often as new technologies take over older tech such as with DVD's taking over VHS and CD's taking over cassettes. The internet is, in my opinion, the most essential part of New Media because most things that involve new media and its lifespan starts off on a web and ends on the web. The NY Times article, "Why Television Still Shines in a World of Screens" talks about how in a time when newspaper and magazine readers have disappeared, but yet television viewers are still keeping this old media popular. However, I beg to differ. While a lot of people still watch television, a lot are switching to watching their favorite shows online. Sites like Hulu have more and more viewers everyday. So while television is putting up a good fight, ultimately it will lose and all shows will become online only shows.