Lev Manovich
What is New Media: 8 Propositions

from New Media from Borges to HTML (2001)


1. New media is not cyberculture.

2. New Media as Computer Technology used as a Distribution Platform.

3. New Media as Digital Data Controlled by Software.

4. New Media as the Mix Between Existing Cultural Conventions and the Conventions of Software.

5. New Media as the Aesthetics that Accompanies the Early Stage of
Every New Modern Media and Communication Technology.

6. New Media as Faster Execution of Algorithms
Previously Executed Manually or Through Other Technologies.

7. New Media as the Encoding of Modernist Avant-Garde;
New Media as Metamedia.

8. New Media as Parallel Articulation of Similar Ideas in Post WWII Art and Modern Computing.