Questions on What Is New Media (ch.1)

1. How can we define the materialities of new media texts or writing with the new media based on Manovich's elaboration on what constitutes the media and its renewal?

2. A lot of Manovich's explanation of the work of the new media is worth referencing for the teaching of writing. For example, with the understanding of modularity, the collection of discrete samples for a larger project, we can teach how writing can be assembled and re-arranged in various ways for different purposes or genres. How can we utilize the idea of hypertext and managing (access to) information in teaching writing so that our students can be opened to more agency as writers?Is teaching the idea of hypertext even suitable for a freshman college composition?