Talk:Digital media

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[edit] POV check

Why does it open with the words "Digital disaster"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lesley Fairbairn (talk • contribs) 17:14, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

IMHO, there is plenty of bias in this article —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.207.180.66 (talk) 15:00, 30 April 2005

The POV check notice was posted almost 3 months ago, and despite several edits, no major changes have been made, nor has anyone else commented on the talk page about POV problems. As such, if no one objects, I will take down the POV check. --K. AKA Konrad West TALK 23:51, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

It strikes me that the bulk of content of this article is entirely seperate from the technical issue of what digital media is. It's clearly not NPOV; use of the term 'draconian', implication of intentional criminalization both are used to attack the record industry without the counter-arguement over intellectual property and copyright. However, I'd suggest the rights and wrongs of digital media are of a scope and focus more suited to an alternate article, not one on the definition of digital media. It's entirely possible no-one has cared enough to suggest an NPOV edit or had a reason to add to this talk page - that doesn't mean it's not biased. Also, I'd suggest people using the wikipedia - an online open source information resource - probably aren't too upset by a POV that slants in this way. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.137.76.219 (talk) 18:16, 18 August 2005

[edit] Proposed merger with New media

Do not merge. “Digital media” is a technical concept, a hypernym of computer data storage. I found this article searching an interwiki to ru:Носитель информации (literally a medium of information). But “New media” is something deeply socio-cultural. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 19:56, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

In media theory digital media can also refer to media which are simply discrete. E.g. the alphabet is a type of digital media because it consists of discrete characters. The printing press/moveable type can also be considered digital in this sense. Even 8mm cinema is digital as while the representation of the film is analog (continuous) it physically is a series of discrete images. However, I think that there should be made a distinction between digital/bits media and other digital media as those I have mentioned above. A good reference for this distinction is Lev Manovich's Language of New Media Khawaga (talk) 06:33, 30 January 2009 (UTC)