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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:

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:

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 {{quote|''But shouldn't he also have [[The Nth Doctor|ten]] different [[Facebook|facebooks]]? And maybe a my(time and relative dimensions in)space page as well?''|[[Live Journal]] comment about [[Doctor Who|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: ''[[Orions Arm]]''), games, and - since we are here - wikis.
+"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.
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 Here are some major sub-headers: