Digitality:

Digitality means that "all input data [of a medium] are converted into numbers" (Lister 14). It is one of the key characteristics of new media which distinguishes them from analogue media (where all input data is merely converted into another physical object). Thanks to digitality huge amounts of data (e.g. text, audio and video) can be compressed to a high degree, accessed at high speeds and changed very easily. Therefore, digitality is a precondition for a mixture of different communication elements in blogs. It also increases opportunities of manipulation and intervention. As a consequence, digital media "tend towards a permanent state of flux" (Lister 16). 

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