The cool medium of the internet has transformed the way people receive information, giving anyone the ability to participate and comment on what they are seeing/hearing. Hot media are usually sequential and logical, and favor one sense over the others. The customization and ability for interaction in image sharing sites like flickr, TV/movie watching sites like netflix and hulu, and online newspapers like CNN have already been mentioned, but the internet is continuing to grow through multimedia sites that allow anyone with internet access to participate and break down the hot media barrier.
Reddit allows users to share links to news and images, and the rank of each thread on the websites depends on upvotes by the other users, meaning that the input from members of the site is what decides which news will be seen on the front page. Users can also comment on any post and discuss anything with the original poster, so no image or story is left as is.
One of the unmentioned forms of hot media was lectures, which I think can now be also dissolved through the internet with the help of YouTube. The website is already used by many people to present and comment on news, inviting the written comments of others as well, with hyperlinks and annotations throughout the video allowing the viewer to choose what they wat to see. Even educational channels have annotations and allow viewers to write comments if they have further questions. So outside of the lecturing video, there is discussion among users about the content which is more similar to the seminar cool medium.
lecture channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/crashcourse
The internet allows communities of people to connect and create things together, and is continuing to shape the way information travels through space and time.
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