The difference between media and multimedia

1. The so-called new media is relative to the traditional media. The difference between new media and traditional media lies not in the time when it appeared, but in the way of communication and the form of content. Compared with newspapers, outdoor, radio and television, new media is vividly called "the fifth media".

Wired magazine in the United States defines new media as "communication between all people and all people".

Professor Xiong Chengyu from Tsinghua University School of Journalism and Communication: "The emergence and influence of media forms based on computer information processing technology."

Wang Bin, Secretary General of the New Media Industry Alliance: "New media is an innovative media based on digital information technology and characterized by interactive communication."

2. Multimedia is the synthesis of various media, generally including words, sounds and images.

In computer system, multimedia refers to the man-machine interactive information exchange and communication medium which combines two or more media. The media used include words, pictures, photos and sounds.

, animation and movies, as well as interactive functions provided by the program.

Multimedia is a subset of hypermedia system, which is a global information system composed of hyperlinks. The global information system uses TCP/IP on the Internet.

Protocol and UDP/IP

Protocol application system. Two-dimensional multimedia web pages are written in HTML, XML and other languages, and three-dimensional multimedia web pages are written in VRML and other languages. Many multimedia works are distributed in the form of CD-ROM, and will be distributed more on the Internet in the future.