Old media, traditional media, or legacy media,[1] are the mass media institutions that predominated prior to the Information Age; particularly print media, film studios, music studios, advertising agencies, radio broadcasting, and television.[2][3][4] Old media institutions are centralized and communicate with one-way technologies to a (generally anonymous) mass audience.[4][5]New media computer technologies are interactive and comparatively decentralized; they enable people to telecommunicate with one another.[6] The defining telecommunications network of the Information Age is the Internet.
