A Defining Example of New Media Writing

In a five-to-seven page essay (double spaced, at least 1,300 words), look at a single example of "New Media Writing" to identify and understand one defining technique, issue, problem or principle.

Support your definition with at least five quotations from Janet Murray's book, or some other academic analysis of New Media.

This example of New Media could be a Web site, DVD movie menu system, online game, hypertext fiction, media CD, online class, etc. The idea is the choose one "defining example" to unify your analysis.

Issues

In your discussion, you could address "New Media" issues like the following:

• How is this an example of "New Media" (where old media are converged into a single experience on the screen)?
• What's "New" about the technique, issue, problem or principle (vs. the techniques, issues, problems or principles of "old" print or analogue media)?
• How does your New Media example still call upon the "writing" and "reading" parts of our brains, rather than just our "design" brains?

Citation and Documentation

Your essay should include parenthetical citation of all quotations and paraphased ideas and a "Works Cited" section at the end—both in MLA format.

Screen Shots

You will want to use screen shots and images to illustrate what you discuss in the essay, but don't count the space taken by the images in your page count.