New Media: Theoretical Concepts and Critical Readings

Abstract

The new media or new media has been able to occupy an important place in many studies due to its implications on various aspects of life and the daily practices of individuals, also because of its association with the communication process and its roles in providing the recipient with information and various directions and opinions, to move The individual from his real world to virtual dimensions where various interactions take place from conversation, comment, admiration, response and participation, and then form a vision about the events and phenomena surrounding him, and about people and developmental groups as well.

The reliance on the Internet, its applications and its media has increased further in recent years, prompting specialists to expand their studies and dismantle this phenomenon from a cognitive point of view, making it a broad and expandable field, by going beyond the idea of endoscopy, which is trying to understand what the phenomenon is.  And its implications for the various aspects related to the recipient, relying on various theories and cognitive heritage that have been relied upon in understanding traditional methods, while trying to adapt them to the updates that have occurred, to arrive to try to read critically of them, and to build new frameworks and approaches in line with the interactive The participatory character of the new media.

In this paper, we will try to address some of the concepts and theories that explain the new media and the criticisms directed at it, and what approaches you have tried to refer to.