What is New Media?

What kinds of technologies are part of the new media? How important is the Internet to the new media? Why and how are the new media replacing and / or enhancing the old media?

New media, to me, is a new way of conveying messages using new technological tools. Such tools are web cams and software that allow us to use these new gadgets. According to Clive Thompson, who wrote "Clive Thompson on How YouTube Changes the Way We Think," he states that "whenever we get our hands on a new medium we tend to use it like older ones." he feels that the only ones who are using new media correctly are such "weirdos" that post strange and muted videos on YouTube. He states that using a web cam to have an emotional wallpaper on your screen is not using new media.
I disagree with him. I think that the way we are using these new mediums with old techniques is the perfect way to use new media. Yes, new media is enhancing the way we communicate using methods we haven't used before, but the fact that we are able to communicate like we used to, through a simpler and easier medium, to me defines new media.