The document discusses the history of new media including concepts like convergence, mediascape, technology and its relationship to media, affordances, emergence, and impact. It provides examples of convergence across different media like music videos being distributed through MTV, YouTube and band websites. Technologies like text messages, video cameras, Napster and the creation of the World Wide Web are examined in terms of their affordances and emergence. The Obama presidential campaign's use of new media is highlighted as an example of user-generated and viral campaigns on sites like Facebook and YouTube.