Tracing the History of New Media and Information Literacy
The development of New Media is characterized by technological innovation and shifting social mores, and traces its origins to "traditional media" which have been reconfigured, becoming increasingly popular in the mid-1990s. Pioneers at the time looked to push the boundaries of new technologies and subsequent developments with Web 2.0 in the early 2000s further drove the adoption of new forms of media. This continued development continually changes the way in which we communicate, receive information, and are entertained. New Media enables individuals all over the world to extend their access to information in any social media sites like Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok, Twitter, Skype, YouTube, etc. During the 1950s, relations between computing and revolutionary art started strengthening. It wasn't until the 1980s that Alan Kay and his colleagues at Xerox Parc started to make the computability of a personal computer available to the individual, as opposed to having a large...