Digital Media is consistently integrated and incorporated into the world in new and unique ways every single day. Every medium of art has been affected by it in some fashion or another. Every facet of society has been affected by it in some fashion or another. Therefore we as people should learn to interact with this new media. My digital Media Professor Bob King explains why we should study digital media. He talks about how we have moved from the bronze age to the iron age and now are in the digital age and thus we need to know how to use or at least begin to understand the importance of technology.
Others just try to define digital media. Lev Manovich and Jonathan Lethem try to define in their articles "How media became New" and "The ecstasy of influence" respectively. They touch on some interesting topics such as "what defines New Media" and "how it effects our society and our art". They argue that no portion of our society is no longer untouched by New or Digital Media.
Artists such as Girl Talk redefine what copyright and creative influence mean. The band Girl Talk take samples from other artists music and combine them to make wholly original works while at the same time using their influence. This has gotten Girl Talk in significant legal trouble by using other artists creations without permission. However author Lawrence Lessig provides ample evidence that Girl Talk is not the first artist to define this new notion of Copyright. John Phillip Sousa also took portions of others music and used it to enhance his own.
Overall Digital Media will continue to change our world and challenge a number of other laws and even define its own. But this is just how the world evolves.
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