Task 12: tool or medium?

There have been so many opinions, ways how to define what exactly new media is to us nowadays. What is its use now and where is it going in future.

In the article Tool or Medium? Ruckriem points out new question. Is new media a 'tool' or a 'medium'. For me this is just making more questions and creating more mess in my understanding ( or trying to understand) of new media as a concept.

The main thing that author points out is a question is new media, technologies are 'tools' or 'medium'.

And the answer is both, it just depends on one's perspective. But the problem rises if we want to put technology in the frame of one or another or both. As author pointed out, in the beginning we have to look at this all from the higher point of view - its importance in whole human kind and communication . ('' There is no medium with a broader range of impact.'')

We have to understand with what we are dealing and how much it is changing society.

Talking about ''Guns don't kill people, people kill people'' dilemma, this question considering new media and technologies as bad or good has been talked trough a lot lately. And I think most of us agree that its nor god or bad. It all starts with a human and its means. Making good or bad decisions is always been human responsibility. It can be just one more ( very dangerous though) weapon, but it does not have to be. If there would be no weapons the war would be fought anyway.