Nov 2019 - 'The new media has weakened the power of the traditional media'. Assess this view. (16) May 2015 - 'The new media are now much more powerful than the traditional media'. Assess this view. (16)

Mass media - New media & 'old'/traditional media

Audience for new media is larger than traditional media forms like the newspaper

Digital Media

Social networks - virtual communities

Some old media today exists in new media formats

Features/ characteristics of new media

Convergence

Interactivity

Audience/user power

Accessibility

Hypertextual

Pluralists - diversity of information/choice

Traditional Marxists - this perspective less relevant with regards to new media

Post modernists - social changes/ more choice/ diversity

State regulation & Censorship

New media - greater choice with regards to identity

Criticism - new media associated with many issues - trolling, cyberbullying, abuse, death threats

Certain traditional media still important

Conclusion