Principles of New Media

10 Principles of New Media.

1 The computer interface is a universal language.
“all computer users can “speak” the language of the interface”
2 “Mobility”
3 “Separate realities form consecutive moments in time”
4 “Separate realities form contingent moments in time”
5 “ different worlds can clash semantically rather than form a single universe”
6 Scale and location are irrelevant universally equalizing things page 6
7 The medium through which we veiw a representation of reality has changed and now experience it on a electronic screen page 7
8 “Synthetic computer-generated imagery is not an inferior representation of our reality, but a realistic representation of a different reality"
9 “ New media objects contain a hierarchy of levels, (OS, HTML, programing language, assembly language, machine language)”
10 Effects become the vocabulary by which new media conveys it's message.

Quotes are from
Lev Manovich
“The Language of New Media”