Interactive Media--what is it?

Interactive media. What is it? Where is it and how is something considered to be interactive? After much contemplation over the subject it hit me- DING- interactive media is almost everywhere and we are all contributors to the flow and continuation of it. While e-mail and most of the internet can be considered interactive, there is a whole different world that survives both inside and outside of the internet: gaming.

Gaming brings new possibilities for interacting with people around the world, whetehr it is with Wii or Xbox or interactive online chess. In the 20th century both of these games seem like they may have little to do with communication or global interactions, but thankfully the internet has pushed us into the 21st century. This has allowed us to play chess with someone in china, or play Mario Kart with somebody who is sitting in their home in France.

Because of the internet and the popularity of games such as chess and Mario Kart, people are able to not only interact with the medium that is displaying the game (computer or a television with an internet hook up), but with other people as well. It is a package of multiple forms of interaction with multiple entities. 

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