shoulder&shadow: media and cyberculture

New media and cyberculture have close connection and relationship because the market appeared many type to depend on computers to express and dissemination of new culture forms. Such as, website, virtual world，multi-media，computer games，computer animation and so on. In essence they with the traditional forms of culture have quite big difference. On the other hand，the computer experience the media analogy of the evolvement. In the early 1990s, the computer is considered electronic typewriter, the most extensive application software is WordStar and Word 1.0 "Word processing software". If at that time to comment on computer media, this will be an embarrassing thing. It is just an office aid software and be called "computing machine", how can be a kind of media?

However, until the late 1990s computers started to change to become universal machine, it is not only to use office aid software for people, but also it can convert, storage and transmission cultural content. At the time, computers have become us with other cultural contents of the connection way. However, until the late 1990s computers started to change to become universal machine, it is not only to use office aid software for people, and it can convert, storage and transmission cultural content. At the time, computers have become us with other cultural contents of the connection way. We through computer watch TV news, movies, instant messaging, mobile phone messages, editing images, and computers are the final information storage means and communication media. Nowadays, cyberculture is not only computer machine, but also it contains various cultural content of media machine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberculture