Abstract
New media have transformed the possibilities of distribution, acquisition, manipulation, storage, and production of communication. They have also impacted the previous media technologies, including the images, moving images, and written text. In the same way, these new expressive media reflect a moment in history, potentialize a new kinds of symbolic construction. However, for their relative newness they haven’t built yet a proper language, what makes necessary to explore the properties of the medium.The inquiry for the properties of the medium might lead us to understand the way in which new media make converge topics in communication and information science related with writing and reading; as well as some of the tasks of the information architect and the editor.This journal is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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