Whitaker Chapter 3

The article for class New Media and Web Production was quite interesting. This chapter was about new media and web production. According to Jason Whitaker, new media is a term applied to the various components that constitute digital production, whether for the web or other formats such as digital video. There are differences between old media and new media. It is a step toward digital formats opposed to old analog formats.

Hypertext is a fundamental component of the World Wide Web. Without a formal protocol for transmitting documents using the HTTP, the Web would not exist, and without a standard format for creating pages, including the ability to link between them (hyperlinks), web pages would loose a great deal of there usability(Whitaker). Whittaker also states an easy way to understand what hypertext is, is to think of hypertext as text composed of blocks of text. Hyperlinks may work with other components such as images or videos, creating hypermedia that link from page to page, image to image, video to video, or any combination of these.

In this article Whitaker says how with the new innovation of digital imagining seeing may not be believing. We are now beginning to treat the image with the same suspicion once reserved for the printed word.

I believe that the internet is its own developing city. It works hand to hand with technology. As we become more technological advanced I feel that the web will continue to grow and become a greater medium for information. Hypertext and new innovations such as audio and video help the internet flow more smoothly. It is easier to get around and access information with these inventions