The document discusses new digital media and EU programs to build a digital society by 2020. It outlines several key EU initiatives such as the single digital market, compatibility of technology standards, research and innovation, and new e-skills. It also describes characteristics of new media such as hypertext changing media, dominance of binary logic, formation of clusters and networks, and influence coming from programming capacity. Finally, it discusses digital competency, information literacy, features of digital media/communication, and new tendencies in communication like intelligent reality, metadata, and knowledge discovery.