What is Interactive Media???

Interactive Media issssss.... media that you interact with.

What is media? The dictionary doesn't give a very good definition, and it's hard to find a good definition period, since a word that has such a broad span of what it can mean; however, the best one that I have come across, pertaining to interactive media, is "tools used to store and deliver information or data," (Wikipedia). Interactive is pretty self explanatory- the user, in some way or another, interacts with the media.

So interactive media can be a wide variety of things! Video games, online poker tournaments, computers, printers, digital cameras/camcorders, Smartboards, CPS units, defibrillators/pacemakers, telephones, DVRs, electronic books, regular books, Photoshop, Premier, Audition... it could go on and on!