New Media Tropes

"But shouldn't he also have ten different facebooks? And maybe a my(time and relative dimensions in)space page as well?"

- Live Journal comment about The Doctor and new media

"New media" for our purposes means computers, the Internet, and everything on them: blogs, podcasts, machinima, online collaborative fics (see: Orion's Arm), games, and - since we are here - wikis.

Here are some major sub-headers:


 * Alternate Reality Game Tropes
 * Friending Network
 * Internet
 * Original Character Tournament
 * Video Game Tropes
 * Virtual Worlds
 * Web Original

New Media-in-the-press tropes:
 * New Media Are Evil
 * New Technology Is Evil
 * Old Media Are Evil (the New Media's rejoinder)
 * Old Media Playing Catch Up
 * The New Rock and Roll
 * You Can Panic Now

The Old Media also tend to have a bee in their bonnet about infringement, since a lot of New Media stand in a sort of gray area in regards to copyright. Aside from half of the kinds of Fan Work, including the aforementioned Machinima, there's also this:
 * Emulation

Other New Media Tropes and definitions:
 * Access
 * Animutation
 * ASCII Art
 * BB Code
 * Blogosphere
 * Breaking the Reviewers Wall
 * Digital Avatar
 * Direct Demographic
 * DTMFA
 * Emoticon
 * Eternal September
 * Faux HTML Tags
 * Forum Roleplays
 * Journal Roleplay
 * Play-By-Post Games
 * 419 Scam
 * Fun with Autocensors
 * Genius Programming
 * Godwin's Law
 * Image Macro
 * Instant Humiliation - Just Add YouTube
 * Instant Web Hit
 * Internet Backdraft
 * Internet Counterattack
 * Key of Awesome
 * Kung Fu Jesus
 * Literal Music Video
 * Long Runner Tech Marches On
 * Misplaced Nationalism
 * Mistakenly Banned
 * The Most Dangerous Video Game
 * Podcast
 * Alternate DVD Commentary
 * Podiobooks
 * Rickroll
 * The Rule of First Adopters
 * Sarcasm Mode
 * Screen Name
 * Scunthorpe Problem
 * Shock Site
 * Stupid Statement Dance Mix
 * Technology Marches On
 * Video Collage
 * Video Review Show
 * Vlog Series
 * Webisode
 * Web Serial Novel
 * Web 2.0