My New Media Class - So Far

What kinds of technologies are part of the new media?
I believe technologies that affect and improve 5C's are all part of the new media.
Communication: The new media helps people communicate each other better, no matter where they are. Examples could be Blogs and E-mails. When E-mails were not around us, we need to send paper mail to people and it takes forever to receive a mail. However, sending mail via internet allowed people to communicate a lot faster.
Another example could be instant messaging system such as MSN live messanger or AIM. This technology is better than email because it is a instant message that is like a phone with no voice but written sentences.
Community: When you think about new media with community, the first thing that hits you in the head is the online social networking sites. Social networking sites allows people to socialize with a lot of people which it could be hard in "offline." In offline, there is limitation of places that you could meet new people but on online there is no limitations.
Collaboration: The example of collaboration could be wikipedia. Wikipedia is like a encyclopedia online but people could update the information if there are something to change. Simply, people get together (collaborate each other) and create perfect information.
Creativity&Convergence: the technology that goes with these 2 C's is google map with real pictures. If you want to find a location and what the location really look like, you could check out real picture that is avavilable. Another example can be found in the course reading material. One person who are going to work in silicon valley needed to find a house near his work place but he could locate how the house look and actual location so he "mesh up" google map and housing website to see the location and picture of house in one time.
How important is the Internet to the new media?
These improvement of 5 C's could be achieved because of the internet. As you can see in my previous answer for the previous question, these improvement all happend online with people around the world. If there was not such thing as internet, we would still live in slow and boring life.
Why and how are the new media replacing and / or enhancing the old media?
The new media sure is replacing old media. As you can see, now a days people are watching news, reading newpaper, listening music on handheld PC. This PDA sure replaced news paper, TV, and CDplayer (cassette player). People are willing to do multiple things in one time but with old media it was impossible to do that but the new media allow people to do things that they always wanted to do.