It's interesting look at digital media as a fractal. But many things can be seen as fractals also. Analog video tape can also be broken into fractals because it also uses frames.
To me digital media is so versatile, it really cannot be called a medium, it is every medium. Before we had painting represented on canvas, photo's represented on film, and music represented on records, they can all be represented on the same medium now. This medium is so flexible that you can pull it apart into it's elements and it can reassemble itself within milliseconds. With the advent of the internet, post a file online and it exists forever in this infinite cyberspace because the internet is backed up so many times that even if you delete the file it will still exist somewhere and you have no restriction to how many times you can copy the file.
Digital media is like a window into a perfect world where there are no rules, things live forever and a person with a basket of fish and bread can share their fish and bread with 100,000 others and still have the exact same amount of fish and bread.
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