ABSTRACT
New media encompasses more than just the media that live in the digital world of cyberspace. Indeed, new media represents perhaps the single most important meme of the 21st century. The influence of new media as conduits for cultural memes has exploded with the staggering growth of the Internet. The new media chronicle begins with the Internet, which has an amazingly short history. New media is far more dynamic, in part because most users access the content in a nonlinear manner. New media lives within an endless, multitiered mosaic of knowledge, the elements of which are always linked in multiple ways. In the new media era, people on the scene of natural disasters such as hurricanes or tornados contribute a significant number of on-the-scene videos that The Weather Channel picks up and then sends to the other networks via their Websites.
