Keyword – TikTok

Gayer, Zoltán:

What is a Medium?

This paper argues that the internet is not a medium. Rather, one should consider media the applications and websites the internet is a channel for. It defines a medium as an algorithm-based encoding system linked to a data structure. It also suggests a typology to define all media, old and new.

Keywords: algorithm, internet, Facebook, media, medium, television, TikTok, radio