What are new forms of media? How can we study them?

New forms of media are all media which have either been computerised by a computer chip or by remediation. As the seminar has shown shown so far new media can be studied in very different ways and on different levels. Especially in this course we focused on literary theories and the comparison to new media like TV series, movies or video games. One can analyse if their do represent reality or not. The question of simulation and simulacra is also comparable to all these media. However, ‘simple’ literary theories and topics like identifying the narrative situation or talking about gender are also aspects of new media which can be studied. All in all, new media are very complex and cover a high number of different academic topics. Through the last 13 weeks, we only covered some of these topics. However, there is still more. Because of the constant process of remediation new media will be created future generations of students will analyse and study at university because we will never run out of interesting topics.