Questions for 1/13

1. Manovich states that “All existing media are translated into numerical data accessible for the computer. The result: graphics, moving images, sounds, shapes, spaces, and texts become computable, that is, simply sets of computer data. In short, media become new media” (25). If all new media has numerical representations, then do anything that might be considered “old media” become “new media” merely because it becomes computable?

2. Manovich and Wysocki approach new media from two different disciplines and have different ideas of what “new media” is. Exactly what are the differences between Manovich’s and Wysocki’s definitions of “new media”?