Editing Digital media (section)

==Examples==
Examples of digital media include [[software]], [[digital images]], [[digital video]], [[video games]], [[web pages]] and [[websites]], [[social media]], [[digital data]] and [[databases]], [[digital audio]] such as [[MP3]], [[electronic document]]s and [[electronic books]]. Digital media often contrasts with [[print media]], such as printed books, newspapers and magazines, and other traditional or analog media, such as [[photographic film]], [[audio tapes]] or [[video tapes]].

Digital media has had a significantly broad and complex impact on society and culture. Combined with the [[Internet]] and [[personal computing]], digital media has caused [[disruptive innovation]] in publishing, journalism, public relations, entertainment, education, commerce and politics. Digital media has also posed new challenges to [[copyright]] and intellectual property laws, fostering an [[open content]] movement in which [[Content creation|content creators]] voluntarily give up some or all of their legal rights to their work. The ubiquity of digital media and its effects on society suggest that we are at the start of a new era in industrial history, called the [[Information Age]], perhaps leading to a [[paperless society]] in which all media are produced and consumed on computers.<ref name=infoage>{{cite web|last=Dewar|first=James A.|title=The information age and the printing press: looking backward to see ahead|url=http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P8014/index2.html#fn0|publisher=RAND Corporation|access-date=29 March 2014|date=1998|archive-date=30 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140330065112/http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P8014/index2.html#fn0|url-status=live}}</ref> However, challenges to a digital transition remain, including outdated copyright laws, [[censorship]], the [[digital divide]], and the spectre of a [[digital dark age]], in which older media becomes inaccessible to new or upgraded information systems.<ref name=darkage>{{cite news|last=Koehl|first=Sean|title=We need to act now to prevent a digital 'dark age'|url=https://www.wired.com/insights/2013/05/we-need-to-act-to-prevent-a-digital-dark-age/|access-date=29 March 2014|newspaper=Wired|date=15 May 2013|archive-date=12 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130912064628/http://www.wired.com/insights/2013/05/we-need-to-act-to-prevent-a-digital-dark-age|url-status=live}}</ref> Digital media has a significant, wide-ranging and complex impact on society and culture.<ref name=infoage />