Interactive Media answers

Here is the answers of the questions about the interactive media!

Is interactive media a subset of new media?

When I have read the first question I was very fast to answer by myself absolutely yes. Then I asked my stepfather who is a famous journalist in Estonia and he immediately said that new media enable the term of interactive media. But what is the difference he couldn’t exactly answer. New media has a huge range of what it includes in. But then I have read the presentation where found the slide that interactive media is not the new media. It enables to have dynamic life with new media content and interactive relationships but also interactive media update the old media. It means that interactive media has contribution in mass media in general. This approach is mostly are around digital technology and provides us be in the processes according to different devices. In conclusion I can sum up that interactive media is some kind of part of new media but not the same thing.

Do we drive interactive media or does it drive us?

Nowadays we are hostages of using different devises. We have to be modern, mobile and interactive everywhere. Contemporary society doesn’t like laggards people, where are not in popularity. This big process of globalization we can’t stop. In this case I can say that interactive media drives us because we started to live in new civilization where lead devises and Internet and there are playing the big role. Now it is not under the control anymore.

How is interactive media facilitated and what does it facilitate?

Interactive technologies are around us. We can do with Internet everything: booking tickets or hotels, paying bills, buying food or cloth, make calls to each other. Our possibilities are not limited. There is a big range of options what we are able to do thanks to interactive media. Entire world is in your hands if you have internet next to you. It facilitates every part in our life nowadays.