New Media

I'm probably in the wrong mind set for this reading or maybe there is just a lot of terminology I'm not used to, but I feel like I didn't process this well. 

What I did understand is that New media  is based in math and can be manipulated by an algorithm. After this I get lost. I don't really know what makes a media continuous but to covert it to digital the computer samples it and breaks it down into numbers? 

New Media is made of regularized individual components which can be altered thru an automated process. like auto levels in photo shop. New media allows for an abundance of possibilities and stored Information which can be accessed and manipulated individually.