Definition of New Media Assignment

This is a question we have been asked alot over four years of time and last year in New Media 206, Project Design Lab I, I came up with a definition that I think works to an extent in trying to pin point what this major is all about. Here is what I came I have come up with so far:

A firm and concrete definition of what actually "New Media" is, is hard to lock into place because New Media is a subject that continues to develop by leaps and bounds what seems like to me almost daily. New Media allows me to dive into an experience of fields in: technology, design, theory, and at the same time allows you to explore new and different types of information and creative systems. To suggest an idea that propagates through culture is considered to be a "meme". The way a gene propagates through a biological populatin, or the way a "rhizome" root structure always seems to survive, New Media and the spread of information is to me considered to work very similarly. New Media creates a path that allows you to express yourself and give you a chance to make an impact through creative and innovative technological means. This goes hand in with what Vin Crosbie speaks of in his "Medium vs. Vehicle" model of New Media.