A Discussion on the Fundamentals of “New Media"

New millennium came along with the formation of the new media. Soon after, new systems different than the common tools of mass communication media participated in the routine of our lives. Today, we receive a wide range of communication services and we follow the streams by our tools which we carry in our pockets or in our bags. The “new” in the new media appears to be a differential term in order to literally understand these services and flows. On the other hand, new media as evaluated by the truth behind the transformation process to the “new” represents a network of different relationships. Many people argue that these systems are more independent and more democratic, and advocate that they are necessary for the societies for the transformation process. However, the reality of expectations blurred when the developments and policies that led to the emergence of these systems taken into account. The new media, which suits well to the information societies by the expansionist policies of liberal politics, turns out to be a system in which capitalism legitimizes itself when it is seen as the output of innovative tendencies which it is based on. In this context, our paper handles the new media in the innovation-information-technology triangle and discusses the main factors in the rise of the new media.