New media refers to interactive communication using the internet like podcasts, RSS feeds, social networks, and virtual worlds. High definition television has substantially higher resolution than traditional TV. Newsgroups are internet forums where users discuss topics. Email is for receiving, sending, and storing electronic messages. Blogs are online journals. Wikis allow users to edit web page content. Social networking allows people to express themselves and connect with others of similar interests.

1. Discover Glossary<br />Cedric Anover<br />New media: is an interactive forms of communication that use the internet, including podcasts, RSS Feeds, social networks, text messaging, blogs, wikis, and virtual worlds.<br />High definition television: is video that has resolution substantially higher than that of traditional television system.<br />Newsgroups: are internet discussion forums where group of users with common interests gather to talk about everything from software to comic books to politics.<br />Email: is a protocol for receiving, sending, and storing electronic messages. <br />Weblogs/Blogs: is basically a journal that is available on the web.<br />Wikis: is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit web page context using any web browser.<br />Social networking: is based on a certain structure that allows people to both express their individuality and meet people with similar interests. <br />Podcasts: is a series of digital media files that are released episodically and often downloaded through web syndication. <br />Social bookmarking: is a method for internet users to organise, store, manage and search for bookmarks of resources online.<br />Viral videos: is one that becomes popular through the process of internet sharing, typically through video sharing websites, social media and email.<br />RSS (Really Simple Syndication): is a technology that is being used by millions of web users around the world to keep track of their favourite websites.<br />Tag cloud: is a visual depiction of user-generated tags, or simply the word content of a site. <br />Virtual world: is a genre of online community that often takes the form of a computer-based simulated environment, through which users can interact with one another and use and create objects. <br />Web 2.0: is associated with web applications that facilitate participatory information sharing, interoperability, user-centred design, and collaboration on the World Wide Web.<br />Web 1.0: refers to the first stage of the World Wide Web linking webpages with hyperlink.<br />Web 3.0: refers to the predicted third generation of the World Wide Web, usually conjectured to include semantic tagging of content. <br />Virtual identity: A figure in the work created by the programmer or the user. <br />