New media technology definitions

New media technology definitions:

1.Portability:The idea that technology can be carried around (is portable)

2.Convergence:When two or more technologies come together in the same device for example i-phone is an i-pod and a phone.

3.Interactivity:The consumer being ble to interactively participate with new media technologies e.g. red button on sky allows watcher to become interactive.

4. Compatability: if software is compatable then it can run off one model but also of other models e.g. a floppy disk can be compatable with many computers.

5.Storage: Computer devices and components or recording media that store digital data.

6.Miniaturisation: technology having the potential to fit into a smaller spac as technology is getting smaller enabling portability.

7.Digital: the way in which all data types can be transmitted e.g. image sounds and texts.

8.Connectivity: the ability for new media technologies to connect to the internet.

9.Synergy: How a media institution tries to use various products to sell one another e.g. film and video game.