The “LIVE” Time and the Feedback Instantaneity: The Need of a New Perspective

Abstract

When it comes to digital media is not referenced in the media “new” compared to the traditional ones: digital television is still television, in the same way—being an evolution of the traditional one—a mobile phone is always and anyway a telephone. The problem is that the digital convergence of all media in the last two decades, makes these media (mobile, I-pod, game consoles, netbooks, now and the I-pad) something very different from the average of our recent past. In fact, with a mobile I can continue to make calls, but I can also: check my calendar appointments, browse the web, read and send email, update my profile in Facebook, take pictures and shoot video. The digital language actually transforms it in a powerful multimedia station: much more than a phone. This ability to “do many things” with the same tool (intermediality) is not the only characteristic of the specific digital media communication.