This is (1) the growth of television programmes, print media, websites devoted to ot- her media. Some consider these programmes as just a case of self absorption and a loss of contact from “the real” (wars, disasters, politics and policy etc.) Others argu that this is a sign of a growing need for data to make sense of other data leadign to new relationship between audience and “text”. The metaforms which comprised the “Blairwitch Project” can be seen as an example of an aesthetic life of its own being created which is not secondary to an original product. There was a movie, book and websites which beca- me “official” and “unofficial” all of which were self referantial but also blurred the distinctions between “fact” and “fiction”
New Media Terminology
