digital divide media n. recognizes that access to the digitized information via information and communications technology (ICT) and the world wide web is unequal on various grounds related to variations in the availability of the required technological infrastructure interacting with other social factors such as age, class, gender and level of education. mmo
digital media electronic media where information is stored, manipulated and transferred in digital (rather than analogue) form. Computer-based communication relies upon digital rather than analogue signals to transfer information; and the conversion of analog information into digital form has enhanced greatly the potential for communicating sounds, images, characters and words in a multi-modal signal or message by both old and new media. By extension the term also refers to common forms that freely circulate by virtue of digitization, including video games, music files, digital photographs, etc. mmo
