to excruciating (the grainy videos you see on popular Web sites are mega-compressed to save space). Audio alone takes less space, so it usually is good to fantastic.
How do I experience it? Interactively! You aren’t expected to passively watch and listen. New media lets you submit instant feedback, share a show with others and even affect its content, via virtual worlds, social networks, forums, blogs, wikis and other participatory features that the Internet savvy call “Web 2.0.” New media buzzwords you already know: mash-ups and viral video.
I bet now you know you’re more familiar with new media than you realized! So how do you make the most of it professionally? Here are five “starter kit” essentials to help you become a new media mogul:
1) Join the User-Generation: Get your message and material in front of