media" is defined by the dictionary as the storage and transmission tools used for delivering data or information. However, nowadays media is often used as a synonym to mass media and news media. And media, along with everything else in this world, has evolved a lot, and when the Internet was introduced, media fitted perfectly in it, giving birth to the online media.

What is Online Media

From the creation of the Internet, media fitted in it perfectly. It quickly became an alternative to the media sources present - television, radio and newspapers. What gave online media such popularity was the abundant sources the Internet offered - you could read the same news from several places, giving you different points of view. The Internet also offered the perfect public tribune for everyone to share their opinion on the current news. Today, online media is one of the top news sources, bringing the news to a huge audience.

Online media has many representations, such as forums, blogs, image galleries and video portals.

Forums

 Forums were originally used in Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire as a place where the public gathered and discussed the latest news, politics or philosophy. When the World Wide Web gathered popularity and Internet access became something normal and not a luxury, forums saw a second coming. Online forums, or discussion boards, are widely popular, since they allow everybody, connected to the web to share their opinion on a certain topic. And while in the beginning forums were difficult to maintain, with the introduction of databases, such as MySQL and PostgreSQL, and scripting languages, such as PHP and Perl, forums became very easy to

Blogs

Online blogs and bloggers represent the evolution of the forum, something between a public diary and a tribune, where everybody can share their opinion on something. While forums are a public place where a lot of people discuss something, a blog is more private, allowing an individual to share his opinions on current events or to write on an important subject for him. Today, blogs are a very popular way of communication attracting hundreds of visitors every single day.

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Image galleries

What the Internet gave to people was an easy and accessible way to express themselves. And while some prefer to do that writing in forums or blogs, there are many others who prefer to do that via the art of photography or drawing. Image galleries represent a huge portion of the online media today, since a public image gallery gives everyone the chance to photograph important events and then to share his photos with the world.

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Video Portals

Video portals are the latest trend these days. With the improvement of the connection speed worldwide, watching a video online has become something very easy and available to everyone. And with the low prices of video-recording digital cameras, shooting a video has become more than easy. So, the only thing that was stopping someone from shooting his own video news segment and putting it online was the connection speed. Now, with this obstacle gone, everyone can enjoy different videos, coming from different places in the world

What are the forms of new media

 blogs, forum,image gallaries video portal

1. Blogs: public diary where people share their opinion on  current event or write  about  an important subject through the means of communication

2.Forum :this is a message board its an on line discussion site where people can hold conversation and forms of posted message,this differers  from the chatroom because messager are at least temporally archived .This is because approved by s moderator before it is becomes visible

3.Image gallaries :this are pages whic contains large number of media content without the use of images,its can also be  refers to as more collection of photograghs or media files using pictures to tell a stories

4.Video portals:Online video is video content distributed by the Internet.

This is due in part to the penetration of broadband internet, and also to the emergence of highly successful video portals. These portals offer user created or professionally created content.

The majority of online videos are shorter than 5 minutes in duration, a length generally preferred by users who view such content on computers or portable equipment, like cellphones, MP3 players or video game consoles.

Many portals use Adobe Flash Player for their videos, the player which is becoming a de facto industry standard. Others use Windows Media Player, QuickTime, DivX Web Player or RealPlayer.

                      FUNCTIONS

1. Allows to  gather data  & information e.g wikipedia

2. Used for publications via online e.g uploading

3. To acurate /archive a page

4.  For engaging

5.  For  developing sites

6   .For visualising