New Media Tropes
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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
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"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.
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:
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
- 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
- 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