What is Media Arts?
To answer this question, I decided to break up Media Arts into “Media” and “Arts” to post the response.
“Media” is the major forms of mass communication. Mass communication includes Television, Radio, and the Internet. Those are also considered older forms of media, but they are also the dominant forms that have been around much longer, and still thrive in the world today. There is also new media in addition to the old/mass media. New media is technology that is spreading rapidly around the world, becoming more popular, and being widely used in more areas. New media includes social media sites, video games and video game consoles, YouTube, and blogs.
“Art” is human expression using their skills, creativity, interests and visions.
To combine both “Media” and “Art” into one term, Media Arts is human expression through mass communications. Media Arts is people creating their own, interesting artwork(s) on a new media technology, and sharing them through media for wide audiences around the world to see. One media, which is a new media, that is allowing people to portray their media arts stories and projects are blogs.
Blogs are frequently updated Internet Websites and Webpages, where people can express themselves to the world. People can write text, post pictures and videos (add media), and provide links to outside sources. People use blogs to focus on their own interests and lifestyles. Blogs are a great new media that allows people to portray their skills and share their content with large demographics and audiences through the Internet. Blog sites are free to use, and the Internet has a huge population and contains mass media like social media sites and YouTube. Blogs are a popular and easy way for people to start sharing their experiences with online audiences. The only negatives with blogs are that some of them can focus on smaller, more specific audiences. Blogs can be hard for some people to spread to mass audiences based on their aforementioned interests and lifestyles. People have to use social media sites like Facebook, and new media sites like YouTube to help spread their media artwork(s) and share their experiences further with the world if the blogs do not do it alone.
Media Arts is going to be implemented in my blog environment by using my interest in playing video games. I plan to use my interest in playing video games on my blog by demonstrating my video game experiences.
