Understanding New Media

Eugenia Siapera provides insightful background knowledge to the understanding of new media, particularly an overview of different theoretical perspectives on new media. Siapera explores the intersection of computing science, humanities and the arts, and illuminates why new media is fast securing a science status. Ultimately, Siapera evaluates how new media is affecting the way society behaves, by exploring and questioning the societal transformations and cultural processes, norms, and practices in modern society. When trying to understand new media, it is imperative to consider the relationship between technology and society. Human beings often ignore or reduce how much of their lives are controlled by technology when, in fact, human beings are intrinsically intertwined with the emergence of new technologies–they both develop in symbiosis with one another.