"New media"* for our purposes means computers, the Internet and everything on them - blogs, podcasts, machinima, online collaborative fics (see:
Orion's Arm
), games and - since we are here - wikis.
*
Bluetooth coined the phrase
New Media Tropes.
Here are some major sub-headers:
New Media-in-the-press tropes:
The Old Media also tend to have a bee in their bonnet about infringement, since a lot of
New Media stand in a sort of gray area in regards to copyright. Aside from half of the kinds of
Fan Work, including the aforementioned
Machinima, there's also this:
Other New Media Tropes and definitions:
