SIAM RAHMAN's Reflection /
Literature Review on Digital Media and Community

Digital Media

Media has been a part of human civilization ever since its inception. Compared to the long history of humans, digital media is a recent addition to our societies. Though digital media is all around us, and easy for us to notice, it is difficult to define. A broad definition would be, "Digital Media is transmitted as digital data, which at its simplest involves digital cables or satellites sending binary signals -- 0s and 1s -- to devices that translate them into audio, video, graphics, text, and more." [¹]

Tony Feldman in his book Introduction to Digital Media[²] categorizes, digital media into two categories to make it easier for us to define digital media. These categories can be crudely labelled as offline (like CD-rom, usb drives) and online media (like television, social media). So, in layman's terms it is every