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  • What is New Media?

    New media refers to “those digital media that are interactive, incorporate two-way communication and involve some form of computing,” (R. Logan Understanding New Media.) According to Professor Lev Manovich, examples of new media include: websites virtual worlds and virtual reality, multimedia computer games. New Media is something most of use and largely take for granted today.…

  • The Internet as an Object of Content Analysis

    Websites, social media posts and similar virtual documents are all forms of secondary data, and thus amenable to both quantitative and qualitative content analysis.     There are, however, many difficulties in using web sites as sources of content analysis. Following Scott’s (1990) four criteria of assessing the quality of documents, we need consider why…