How does new media differ from more traditional forms of art, such as painting?

it is interactive and more relatable

Explanation:

The innovations in media like Visual arts, or Cinema, along with other modern forms like Comics, are interactive in that they stimulate the public to have an exchange of sensations and engage them quickly.

The public is eager to spend much time in the arts, as before these arenas were for a highly selective and reduced group. The delighted of art traditionally was reserved for certain groups that did not include the rest of social classes.

The messages and content that new media has, travels freely among many platforms, like the Internet and TV , making old and new stories more relatable and closes the breach that previously existed.