Comments on: ‘Digital’ media or ‘online’ media? http://steveouting.com/2009/05/03/digital-media-or-online-media/ Journalist, consultant, entrepreneur ... Musings on digital media, Web 2.0/3.0, & news in the Internet era Wed, 02 May 2012 20:38:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Link bucket: Just weeding and pruning | Jay Small | Small Initiatives http://steveouting.com/2009/05/03/digital-media-or-online-media/comment-page-1/#comment-25732 Link bucket: Just weeding and pruning | Jay Small | Small Initiatives Sat, 30 May 2009 14:35:37 +0000 http://steveouting.com/?p=680#comment-25732 [...] "Digital" media or "online" media?: Steve Outing asks and answers a semantic question. Though I don't lose much sleep over terminology anymore (alert colleagues reminded me I had a 1995 vocabulary moment in a recent meeting, referring to a "hot link." How embarrassing!), I tend to apply "digital" to anything handled by bits, bytes and pixels, and "online" to anything pushed or pulled via the Internet. Just about everything online is digital, but not everything digital is online. Even much-maligned mass print production is a digital process almost all the way to the transfer of ink to paper. [...] [...] “Digital” media or “online” media?: Steve Outing asks and answers a semantic question. Though I don’t lose much sleep over terminology anymore (alert colleagues reminded me I had a 1995 vocabulary moment in a recent meeting, referring to a “hot link.” How embarrassing!), I tend to apply “digital” to anything handled by bits, bytes and pixels, and “online” to anything pushed or pulled via the Internet. Just about everything online is digital, but not everything digital is online. Even much-maligned mass print production is a digital process almost all the way to the transfer of ink to paper. [...]

]]> By: Steve Groves http://steveouting.com/2009/05/03/digital-media-or-online-media/comment-page-1/#comment-24167 Steve Groves Fri, 08 May 2009 00:50:07 +0000 http://steveouting.com/?p=680#comment-24167 "Digital Media" is the correct terminology IMHO. As you've suggested, "online" implies a constant state of connectivity, which is no longer needed given how much data can be loaded onto portable devices in a short period of time before going offline again. Digital is what remains constant across all of these new platforms for news delivery. Mind you one day soon saying "digital media" will be like us saying "paper media" today; it will be far to generic to be meaningful. Everything will be digital. “Digital Media” is the correct terminology IMHO. As you’ve suggested, “online” implies a constant state of connectivity, which is no longer needed given how much data can be loaded onto portable devices in a short period of time before going offline again. Digital is what remains constant across all of these new platforms for news delivery.

Mind you one day soon saying “digital media” will be like us saying “paper media” today; it will be far to generic to be meaningful. Everything will be digital.

]]> By: Steve Outing http://steveouting.com/2009/05/03/digital-media-or-online-media/comment-page-1/#comment-24020 Steve Outing Tue, 05 May 2009 20:59:23 +0000 http://steveouting.com/?p=680#comment-24020 Christopher: Good point; there will always be "new media" as technology and how people use it to communicate evolve. I was thinking more in terms of how many writers continue to use the term "new media" when talking about the web, which is long overdue for use of another term. Christopher: Good point; there will always be “new media” as technology and how people use it to communicate evolve. I was thinking more in terms of how many writers continue to use the term “new media” when talking about the web, which is long overdue for use of another term.

]]> By: Christopher Ryan http://steveouting.com/2009/05/03/digital-media-or-online-media/comment-page-1/#comment-23989 Christopher Ryan Tue, 05 May 2009 01:39:17 +0000 http://steveouting.com/?p=680#comment-23989 "New Media" on the way out? It strikes me as a constantly-evolving concept -- one that developers are always trying to keep up with. It's a search, not a destination. “New Media” on the way out? It strikes me as a constantly-evolving concept — one that developers are always trying to keep up with. It’s a search, not a destination.

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