Digital media

In <a href="/facts/Mass_communication/h8IIGLVK">mass communication</a>, digital media is any <a href="/facts/Media_(communication)/uflm14CI">communication media</a> that operates in conjunction with various encoded <a href="/facts/Machine-readable_data/oKEyQhcl">machine-readable data</a> formats. Digital content can be created, viewed, distributed, modified, listened to, and preserved on a <a href="/facts/Digital_electronic/3kJcKbkw">digital electronic</a> device, including digital <a href="/facts/Data_storage_media/uCvJ6nrq">data storage media</a> (in contrast to analog <a href="/facts/Electronic_media/IzPK2q4u">electronic media</a>) and <a href="/facts/Digital_broadcasting/82ovuzUf">digital broadcasting</a>. Digital is defined as any data represented by a series of digits, and media refers to methods of broadcasting or communicating this information. Together, digital media refers to mediums of digitized information broadcast through a screen and/or a speaker. This also includes text, audio, video, and graphics that are transmitted over the internet for viewing or listening to on the internet.
Digital media platforms, such as <a href="/facts/YouTube/db276jst">YouTube</a>, <a href="/facts/Kick_(service)/ql3P5Kzu">Kick</a>, and <a href="/facts/Twitch_(service)/mpXWXcTj">Twitch</a>, accounted for viewership rates of 27.9 billion hours in 2020. A contributing factor to its part in what is commonly referred to as the digital revolution can be attributed to the use of interconnectivity.

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Digital media