Good Phrases for New Media

A few phrases I love to describe new media:

"Platform agnostic" is one of my favorite ways to describe journalists and information dissemination of the future. Journalists who are platform agnostic are non-preferential about the platform they use to distribute information. I first picked up the phrase from Joe Grimm, the journalism recruiting expert at The Poynter Institute. Journalists are continuing to learn that it's not about reporting and writing; it's about reporting and distributing in various different ways simultaneously.

Quiet voyeurism is what we practice on social networking sites. As I have found myself explaining to newer users of Facebook, a conversation one witnesses on Facebook is not necessarily good fodder for an in-person conversation (depending upon the relationship you have with that person). It is implicit to Facebook users that we will watch one another's lives -- but not necessarily bring it up in the office next day. I don't know if anyone else describes it this way, but it's a phrase I like to use.

Digital natives are those who grew up/are growing up in the digital age. Digital natives are unable to divide their digital lives and real lives, and generally do not find the need to juggle the two. Rather, the two halves are cohesive.