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General Discussion:

What is New Media (to you):

http://rebuildingmedia.corante.com/archives/2006/04/27/what_is_new_media.php Argues that the defining feature of New Media is it's ability to "communicate a unique message to each recipient" while still delivering "simultaneous messages to a mass of recipients" combining the best parts of individual interpersonal communication and the mass media distribution. As a theoretical definition I think this is OK, but I think if we use this definition it becomes hard to call anything we have now as truly 'new media' because it fails to deliver a message which is comparable to interpersonal communication (inserting a name into a form letter doesn't make the letter into a conversation) ~iAn

What Is a Real Image (continuation of discussion from Druckrey article):

Colleen,
While I agree with most of what you were saying about youtube I would
like to point out the youtube content guidelines
http://www.youtube.com/t/community_guidelines specifically point 4
which directly states that youtube itself will not host footage of
war/carnage you'll need to go to a site like http://www.liveleak.com/
if you want a more unfiltered set of videos. Also, while in general I
agree that we have just recently started to question the validity and
'realness' of photos that photo manipulation has a history that goes
back almost as far as photography itself
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/farid/research/digitaltampering

Ian

Ian,

I looked at the YouTube content guidelines and there is definitely a loophole
here:  

This includes war footage if it's intended to shock or disgust.

So if it's intended to expose.... I'm just saying I think there's room
for more explicit war footage and, either way, I do believe the
government has people combing the net looking for things to ban.

Colleen

One reason for a lack of footage may be a ban on access to youtube http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2189837/defence-department-blocks if the soldiers are unable to log in to youtube to upload that would effectively cut a lot of the combat videos off at the source unless they went out of thier way to send them home or find some other way around the ban. ian