I really enjoyed reading the work of Dr. Pressman in her Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media and Textuality essay, “Old Media/New Media.” The mindset portrayed in this text was incredibly encouraging of the new, while never forgetting the old. As stated in the text, “New media inspires new ways of thinking about older media. The impact of new media not only promotes studies of individual old mediums but also inspires the emergence of new modes of scholarship.” This quote does a great job of stating that new media doesn’t erase the old, but allows us a new way to study what came before it. New modes of scholarship are created every day with technology, creating new ways to spread information and tell stories online. The new wouldn’t exist without the old, so we study the inspirations that led to the new creation. Everything evolves: people, technology, the way we take in our information. It is up to us not to take in the new, or else we will never evolve. It’s like a two-way street; old media helps us understand the new, but new media also allows us to reinterpret the old