First post, New Media

So this is my first post and I find myself wandering what really is new media and technoculture... I can justify my lack of postings until today because for the past few months my family and I have been plagued with depression, cancer, deaths and outings (of the closet variety), but inspite of all these struggles, there was one thing that was constantly in the back of my mind, e-mail. Of course, I'm enrolled at university, so I must have a vested interest in the outcome of my papers, but I had come to a stage where I had lost any care for university. Luckily, Kevin Veale's reminder e-mail was there, like a shining light. So here I am, discussing the all encompassing nature that is new media. Whether you're facing struggles in your life, whether everything seems down and out, some things, such as e-mail seem like the only viable connection left in your life. Viable connection to what? That question seems a mystery, but it is the idea of a connection to another life that perpetuates the constant fixation upon it. From this idea, I built up how to somehow define what new media and technoculture is. They are very broad terms and so in order to understand the two terms I had to try to understand their purpose. The purpose for me is exactly that, to extend a connection, and a lively connection at that, to another life source. This is extremely apparent in the new medias such as facebook, bebo, myspace and many others. The idea of connection is the motivating factor for all society, whether from Maslow's hierarchy of needs, or by simply looking around us, the societal need for connection is a fact of life, and these new mediums are simply exposing that.