Why Consider a Career In New Media?

What is New Media?

According to Wikipedia New Media is a term meant to encompass the emergence of digital, computerized, or networked information and communication technologies in the later part of the 20th century. Most technologies described as “new media” are digital, often having characteristics of being manipulatable, networkable, dense, compressible, interactive and impartial. Some examples may be the Internet, websites, computer multimedia, computer games, CD-ROMS, and DVDs. New media is not television programs, feature films, magazines, books, or paper-based publications

New Media Careers

If you’re interested in a new media career, you’ll be joining thousands of other digital creators and online and traditional communicators – artists, educators, designers both Web and print, animators, writers and new media savvy business people – who are using digital technologies and the Web to deliver information to people in a variety of new ways. Perhaps you want to apply your visual design and artistic or hone in on writing skills to develop dazzling Web sites. Or perhaps you have an interest in explaining things and want to design online learning courses. Whatever pathway you choose, you’ll find that a rewarding new media career will mean a mix of your talents and creativity, a positive attitude, and great technical and interpersonal skills.

“Now more than any time is the a perfect time to consider a career in the Web profession. I don’t see that going anywhere anyhow changing at any point in time in the near future anything it is just going to ramp up.”
Scott Fegette, Dreamweaver Product Manager, Adobe Systems Inc.

“The web is a new publishing medium that we are only beginning to understand and only beginning to use. Well, you could be part of something very exciting just being figured out.”
Jeffrey Zeldman, Principle A List Apart

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